Here's me hoping that hiring managers / HR will finally start actually calling references and/or checking open source contributions. I have plenty of both, and in my 14 year career have had only 2 companies call my references, 1 check my open source work. So far they all just give me some bs test job to prove that I can do basic CRUD programming despite being a senior engineer, over and over and over again, which could all be avoided with just a phone call and a basic conversation about tech stuff with their technical team ... but they are either lazy, incompetent, or a combination of both, so I get a bs test job - sometimes even before I manage to actually get the first interview. I decline all of these, of course, but there's so many and it has made job searching quite difficult.

You had someone check your work?

That's awesome!

Never happened so far in my 26 year career. It' almost as if they're hiring for something else than solving problems and writing code. Following orders, most likely.