Doesn't that tell you that the method of hiring is flawed in the first place?

If you care to weed out bad candiates, what help are 100% perfectly fine take-home exercises? The only thing that tells you is, that all of your candidates are viable in the first place. Just go into an interview with THAT assumption and ask the right questions.

Why do so many companies assume that people who try to get hired for a certain job don't meet the basic requirements? That gotta be the rule not the exception? That's just a bad faith assumption.

Just make sure your hire fits into your culture and give them sufficient probation time to grow into your codebase.

> > produced good results

> what help are 100% perfectly fine take-home exercises? The only thing that tells you is, that all of your candidates are viable in the first place.

I think you might have interpreted that, in a different way than what was meant.

Could you provide a bit more info? How long were the exercises? Were the applicants evaluated more based on their results or possible writeups? How much did their CV weigh compared to the take-home exercises?