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by Kwpolska 1992 days ago
Cheating on the take-home assignment is easy to fix: have an interview after the assignment is turned in, and ask the candidate to walk through their code, explain their choices and design decisions. (The task should have a few places where making a decision is necessary, eg. whether to use a relational or a NoSQL database.) This can expose cheaters that have no idea about their choices, and help the interviewer understand or accept some decisions they might dislike or disagree with.