My go-to first screening question, regardless of where I work, is to present some JSON from a public API relevant to the domain (nothing too crazy, maybe 2 or 3 levels of nesting max), then ask the candidate to do a filter plus a sum or max - then for bonus, analysis or refactoring of their choice.
Way too often, this results in a painful slog, lots of hints from me, and, nowadays, snippets of AI generated code copied in that actually solve part of the problem but that they don't read and therefore end up breaking.
Way too often, this results in a painful slog, lots of hints from me, and, nowadays, snippets of AI generated code copied in that actually solve part of the problem but that they don't read and therefore end up breaking.