Is hiring broken for non-software jobs like chemists, physicists? What about writers or journalists?
I only have vague insights into these industries but science jobs afaik rely a lot on recommendations - on calling prior collegues and asking. And for writers - well reading their previous stuff works well (easier with open source stuff)
So i would suggest right approach is more a simple FizzBuzz screen, a cultural fit (careful of biases!) and then reading their past OSS / other work (so maybe a prepared portfolio is a good "take home") and calling their references.
A lot of people don't have any polished open source code. I have a lot of stuff on Github, but I wrote it for myself. I don't care if it brakes If I only using it once or twice a year.
I only have vague insights into these industries but science jobs afaik rely a lot on recommendations - on calling prior collegues and asking. And for writers - well reading their previous stuff works well (easier with open source stuff)
So i would suggest right approach is more a simple FizzBuzz screen, a cultural fit (careful of biases!) and then reading their past OSS / other work (so maybe a prepared portfolio is a good "take home") and calling their references.