Not really.
It is much easier to talk about a solution, when the solution is right there in front of you, and you read an explanation of the solution online.
Regurgitating someone else's solution is fairly easy.
It is much easier to talk about a solution, when the solution is right there in front of you, and you read an explanation of the solution online.
Regurgitating someone else's solution is fairly easy.
Which would easily come out at the interview when they fail to answer basic questions about their code.
> at best, you have no idea what their approach was
So? Did you get code that would pass a code review? Did you get code with good commits/history?