> we also ask the candidate to open a PR against the repo just to see if they know the basics of git -- you would be surprise how many people cannot do it

This part seems weird. "[B]asics of git"? You can Google for that and find a fossilized answer on StackOverflow. Do you really have candidates who cannot do git commit/push? Also, if you allow LLMs, then any idiot LLM will also know git basics.