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. Failing to do so at pretty much any scale leads to overtly biased decisions and…

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 — I’ve hired dozens of engineers in my career and, until last year, always met them in person first! Obviously, we’ve all had to change our hiring processes from in-person workflows to online remote code screening and interview platforms. All companies hire engineers a little bit differently, but the general flow…

Find the best alternatives to CoderPad — I’ve hired dozens of engineers in my career and, until last year, always met them in person first! Obviously, we’ve all had to change our hiring processes from in-person workflows to online remote code screening and interview platforms. All companies hire engineers a little bit differently, but the general flow…

Find the best alternatives to HackerRank and Codility — I’ve hired dozens of engineers in my career and, until last year, always met them in person first! Obviously, we’ve all had to change our hiring processes from in-person workflows to online remote code screening and interview platforms. All companies hire engineers a little bit differently, but the general flow…

Comparing FullStory, Inspectlet, Session Rewind, and more — Great product and design teams have to balance the need to continuously innovate by adding new features with the need to optimize existing features. Every new feature dilutes existing features and adds complexity to your product. Building new features when you have a simple product with just 10 early…

Generate rapid insights for rapid growth — Being customer-driven has probably never been more difficult. Features are easily copied, markets quickly become saturated, bugs are publicly Tweeted about, and customer expectations are continuously increasing. Every time our team thinks we’ve finally achieved ‘product-market fit’, the target seems to move and our backlog grows. I know this…