Not everyone has open source projects to show. Also, for the ones that do, extremely few would be used as dependencies in larger projects, so that requirement i

Not everyone has open source projects to show. Also, for the ones that do, extremely few would be used as dependencies in larger projects, so that requirement is just ridiculous. Also, how do you even know if it's the candidate that has developed the code? You simply don't know if the candidate copy-pasted the code. Secondly, just because someone cheated at an extremely difficult Leetcode problem doesn't in any way mean that they can't code on the job. Jobs hardly require such problems. Instead, ask the candidate to explain specific parts of your code that you show them. It can also be cheated, but it has both a screen and a voice input component, so cheating would take more work.