Is the bathroom tiling really a fair comparison? The main reason I hire the way I do is I learned that there are people who have resumes that look like mine (w

Is the bathroom tiling really a fair comparison? The main reason I hire the way I do is I learned that there are people who have resumes that look like mine (with 30+ years of coding) but they don't actually know how to do any coding, even just "please write out a simple class in python that does nothing". I go out of my way to give every candidate a fair shake and I'm not looking for some fast, set-in-stone rules. Nor am I looking for you to solve any really hard problems. Still it's been depressing just how many coders I interview who can't even explain how a hash table works.