I don't think HR can confirm code writing or anything other than start and end dates and job title. So the code writing is not guaranteed. I have seen people in

I don't think HR can confirm code writing or anything other than start and end dates and job title. So the code writing is not guaranteed. I have seen people in small companies getting by for years without writing any code, literally their source control history was empty, no commits at all over period of several years or a dozen of trivial commits at best. But asking HR is not a bad idea, people believe that like in love and war everything is fair in job applications too. There is a lot of lying on those.