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If I had to hire a progammer for a job, the first things I would ask any applier are:

• Can I see some reference? What projects have you finished, how big was each, how much did you do yourself, what was the biggest problem, how are the results used today?
• Have you uploaded any code to a coding community? Do you contribute to coding platforms, like Stack Exchange? Please let me see your account so I can check community responses!
• Do you actively improve and extend your knowledge? Which news pages do you read on a daily basis?
• Do you know about programming project management? Can you make a project out of what you do so I can add developers later on? Do you know about Agile methods, like Kanban and Scrum?

You do not actually have to be a programmer in order to ask the questions above. You do not have to look at the code. But you should try to see if the applicant is nervous about certain points or if the community responses are rather bad.

Additionally, the employer has to check all the things they would ask for any other position. They have to check if the person can integrate into the existing team, if they are diligent, why they want to have that job position, why they want to join the company, what they do in their free time (are they social or might they show problems later on?),...