New this week — Dashboard, Code similarity, UX improvements, Facebook auth (10 September 2018)
Hi 👋 Geoff here. It’s been a little while.
Summer’s coming to a close and sweater-weather will soon be upon us (in the northeast, anyway). Just like how we have to change our wardrobe, the Filtered team has been hard at work building lots of new and cool functionality, as well as updating some older parts of the app that really needed a refresh. Below are some of the highlights.
New dashboard design
We have biiiig plans for the Filtered dashboard. This is a page that you spend a lot of time on because it’s how you find your candidates, create new interviews, check statuses, and more. In the first phase of the dashboard overhaul, we moved a few things around to make way for all of the new filtering, sorting, bulk-actioning, status-checking functionality that you have come to expect from modern software tools (coming soon). You probably noticed because the dashboard shed its old gray look and is now sporting some cool, professional navy blues. More updates to come in the next few weeks.
Code similarity checking
Filtered is incredibly good at picking up on patterns that indicate that a candidate might be cheating on their test. For all paying Filtered customers, your confidence analysis now includes a comparison check. If a candidate’s code is more than 90% similar to that of someone else in the system, the interview will be flagged. You can see the actual lines of code that were detected side-by-side, which can help you determine if the similarity is coincidence or intentional.
Review candidate profile updates
As part of our GDPR updates covered in this recent post, candidates are able to change the information in their profiles. As a courtesy to recruiters who manage candidate lifecycle, you can now view the change history of each candidate profile. This feature helps prevent profiles from changing mysteriously without you being notified, and also lets you be aware of suspicious updates to the candidate profile. (If the candidate hasn’t made any changed to their profile since they submitted the interview, the change log will not be shown.)
Facebook candidate authentication
It turns out that outside of the US, and especially in certain parts of Europe, professional facebook presence is much more prominent than LinkedIn presence. The fact that many of these European candidates didn’t have a LinkedIn profile pushed us to add Facebook as a new choice for interview authentication. If you choose to enable it, candidates can now connect a facebook profile as the final step in their interview. Give it a try! (The Facebook icon can be positioned in the top position like LinkedIn is in the image above.)
Edit interviews created from a template
A common complaint that we (and specifically I) heard from new users of Filtered was that the pre-defined interviews (for Software Engineer, Data Scientist, and Database Engineer) were far too rigid. That is, the auto-generated interviews could not be edited. This forced new users to backtrack and create their own interview, which meant that they couldn’t take advantage of Filtered’s recommendations. I’m happy to announce that we fixed this problem and now all interviews, pre-defined or not, can be edited before you save them. This means that you can let Filtered do the hard work, tweak the details a bit, and then start sending invites in no time.
That’s all for now
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