alt Hacker News>we ask him to show us some code he has written
How do you expect them to get access to the property internal Git repo codebase and approval from their employer's lawyers to show it to third parties during the interview?
Sounds like you're only selecting Foss devs and nothing more.
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My worst code is always what I wrote yesterday. Often what’s missing is context, unless I comment ad nauseam. Sure I didn’t write complete test, obey open closed principles abstract into factory functions. The code I send from my hobby projects is likely a mess, because finishing on my own time by my own unpaid constraints wills it to be so
Maybe you forked a library because of reasons. You can tour the original repo and explain the problems. I have at least one of those examples for each time the legal or confidentiality department stepped in.
Most people have still written code for school or a hobby project. Maybe I'm missing empathy, but I cannot understand how some developers have no code to show.
If that's the case however, just let them make a small project over the weekend and then do another interview where you ask stuff about what they've made. It's not that deep