Looks good. Not sure you need the take home task, just roll that into the 1hr coding task. With ChatGPT these days, pairing is the best for getting experience

Looks good. Not sure you need the take home task, just roll that into the 1hr coding task. With ChatGPT these days, pairing is the best for getting experience with a candidate’s innate abilities. Not everyone does as well pairing as they do solo though, so try to take that into account when evaluating them since they probably won’t be pairing on a normal basis. Pair on the same problem for every candidate and have a specific list of evaluation criteria. Instead of the 2hr coding take home, get a really broad list of coding related questions together and spend an hour discussing those with the candidate. The idea is to evaluate the breadth and depth of their experience.