I have been trying for the past two years to bring our team's down from 2 + work sample to work sample + 1. All my effort has been stymied by an increasingly bu

I have been trying for the past two years to bring our team's down from 2 + work sample to work sample + 1. All my effort has been stymied by an increasingly bureaucratic and "empowered" HR department that wants to standardize on 3 + work sample + test day company-wide. It's driving me insane just to keep the status quo. We are not a FAANG, not in the US, do not and cannot offer SV salaries. They just do not understand one of the best things we can offer is less bullshit and a bigger chance for people with skills but not traditional backgrounds. So instead I have an endless line of young men who kind of know how to add a new JPA repository to a Spring application, and an MSci in some easy-to-get-an-EU-grant area, and we actually spend hours time on each one instead of asking them to code first.