As usual the managers and marketeers forget the obvious point. You are asking a professional developer to write code for you. But apparently you expect them to

As usual the managers and marketeers forget the obvious point. You are asking a professional developer to write code for you. But apparently you expect them to do that for free. In a supply constrained market, that's not how it works. If you want to do code assessments with professional developers, and therefore you don't want to do the leg work looking at and assessing their Github contributions, then you have to expect to pay them for their time. Otherwise why should anybody who has fifteen options on their table waste their free time on you? There was a time during the full employment era that people were paid expenses to attend interviews. It was considered good manners to respect people's time. That common courtesy seems to have gone by the wayside during the shortage of jobs era. Now the tables have turned again.