Can you estimate the time in hours for a Ruby test task?

Question

Ruby on Rails

Gentlemen, we have prepared two test tasks for finding a Ruby middl backender for the team. But they did not agree on the assessment of labor costs for the performance of tasks by candidates. Someone thinks that both tasks are 2-3 hours, someone says that the first task will take at least 8 hours, and the second about 4.
Please look at the tasks at the link and write your estimate in hours for each of the two tasks . So we will come to the truth) Ideally, we want the first task to take about 3 hours, and the second - about 1-2 hours.

Answer 1

8 hours for the first is an extremely optimistic forecast, if done normally.
Such a task should be paid to candidates, regardless of the success of its implementation.

Answer 2

The first task is unsuccessful for the middle. It is trivial, but at the same time voluminous. At least 8 hours, if you do the norms (with tests, with patterns at least at the level of service objects). For 2-3 hours there will be a govnokod. This is a job for Jun. If it is not paid, then the middle will pass further by this vacancy.
The second task is already normal, and I would suggest it for the middle. It can be directly on social security (speculate about implementation options).

Answer 3

Weird question.
It all depends on the experience and skills of the programmer. One will do it in two hours, the other will sit for a week.
And the third one will raise a copy or an analogue of this task and copy-paste it in a couple of minutes

Answer 4

A self-respecting middle will not do your test tasks at all. Invite to the office and give a real problem that can be solved in 1-2-3 hours. So you will immediately see what tools he uses, where he looks and how he generally works. And it will be better than 100-500 test items.