I used to be much more choosy about who I gave take-homes to until we started paying candidates to do the take-home. Now I don't feel as guilty taking a chance

I used to be much more choosy about who I gave take-homes to until we started paying candidates to do the take-home. Now I don't feel as guilty taking a chance on someone I was on the fence on, since I know their time won't be wasted. I would say it went from ~15% to ~25%. My review process is to take their code, throw it up on GitHub for the repo we gave them to start, and then have the team review it as though it was a regular contribution. Depending on how well they did, we either give them a brief written summary of high level issues we found and a polite rejection, or we go over the PR with them in person and make a decision based on how well they responded to feedback, if they were able to understand why we made suggestions etc.