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Interesting! I'm building a way for people to apply for tech jobs by showcasing their experience, and skills backed up with evidence (www.accredible.com - just posted a Show HN after seeing this thread. Edit: reached the front page!). It sounds like your hiring thought process matches this philosophy!

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The challenge with all these things is to make sure that the evidence hasn't been faked. That's why we end up asking people to do some simple tasks in house, before then even considering proper pairing sessions on real work. We had a candidate who actually surreptitiously did a "phone a friend" wile allegedly producing some trivial code to do something FizzBuzz-like.

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