[Aurornis]

A good take-home interview process usually involves a review phase where the candidate talks about their solution and how it works.

This is remarkably effective at filtering out people who had a little too much help in solving it, either from friends, Googling it, or now using an LLM.

It doesn’t happen often, but from time to time someone will come in with a solution they supposedly wrote in the past week but they are unable to discuss it. “I don’t remember exactly what I did here…” and other excuses. It doesn’t take much discussion to reveal someone who never actually understood their own submission.

Of course, I always continue the technical interview to cover the odd possibility that maybe they were too nervous or something. So far I haven’t had anyone who is unable to discuss their own take-home yet shows well in the rest of the interview process.