Thoughtfully-crafted reviews and recommendations by experts about Codility, HackerRank, Coderbyte, and more — Fortunately for engineering teams, we’re experiencing a golden age of code assessment platforms. The pandemic forced recruiting to go remote which led to a massive amount of investment and innovation in the space. …

Thoughtfully-crafted reviews and recommendations by experts about WEX, Forma, Benepass, and more — Fortunately for People Teams, we’re experiencing a golden age of the historically stagnant Lifestyle Spending Accounts (LSAs) industry. The pandemic finally made workforce wellbeing a priority for every organization which led to a massive amount of investment and innovation in the space. …

Thoughtfully-crafted reviews and recommendations by experts about Coderpad, HackerRank, Coderbyte, and more — Fortunately for engineering teams, we’re experiencing a golden age of live coding interview platforms. The pandemic forced all interviewing and hiring to go remote which led to a massive amount of investment and innovation in the space. …

How to develop product intuition with powerful workflows — There are visible differences between high-performing and low-performing product teams, but few are as discernible as “product intuition.” This is when a product team consistently and almost effortlessly ships value and “rarely misses,” without ever appearing to do exhaustive research or diligence. Skeptics will wrongly call this alchemy and say…

I’ve written endlessly about the tension between candidates and employers when it comes to technical assessments and interviews. The TL;DR is that engineering leaders continue to need to carefully evaluate each candidate’s coding capabilities. …

Level up your company culture and grow faster — At Coderbyte, we focus on making incredible candidate interview experiences. For hiring software developers in particular, I’ve written about how to reinvent interviewing in a remote-first world and how to make code assessments more seamless. While it’s still incredibly difficult to hire great talent, the number one issue that companies…

Improve your candidate experience, increase completion rates, and hire software developers faster — I’ve written before about the tech interview process being broken. Too often, coding assessments are irrelevant, tedious, and biased. I know because I’ve been a part of them as an interviewer and candidate at the most well-known tech companies like Google, Facebook, MongoDB, and dozens of others. I built Coderbyte…

Un-cracking the code interview — It’s become a cliché in the industry: the technical interview is broken. Virtually everyone agrees that most technical hiring processes are biased, burdensome, and embarrassingly ineffective at identifying the best candidates for the role. And yet, despite widespread condemnation, it seems nothing ever changes. Why? Simple: supply and demand…

Manage your GitHub take home projects for candidates — All companies hire engineers a little bit differently, but the general flow is as follows: Begin with a 1–2 hour coding assessment to automatically screen and filter out candidates who lack the required skills or experience. This typically removes about 60–90% of applicants. Then schedule a 1-hour remote interview with…