Work trials are fine if you're hiring for throughput. Two days are enough to see whether someone can crank out code fast. But if you're hiring for judgment (especially architecture, design, and similar roles), you're not going to learn whether there's a fit, even in two weeks. Those decisions only show returns after a few months, when they have learned what actually matters to your company. Which is why you have to reduce strategic thinking exercises down to simpler scenarios when…