[darby_nine]

You can pay them to demonstrate it with a take-home problem. I'm not saying this is a great solution, I'm just saying at least you'll figure out what's wrong with your interview process once the indignity of paying an incompetent person sets in.

[geraldwhen]

Chat gpt can solve any take home problem. You need to be on video making interactive feedback and demands to see that someone can actually write code and understands programming even a little bit.