[2rsf]

> Ideally the candidate offers code samples

Code samples are not like blood or urine samples, you should have serious and public projects to sample from.

Many great programmers are not coding outside of the work environment, what should they provide according to your method ?

And for those who do, they can explain things but you can never be sure they actually wrote it or will be able to write at a similar level (well, that's partially true for take home tests as well)

[_throwawayyyyyy]

People lie about their credentials in every profession, why do you think in tech you're going to somehow be able to stop that?