I want to share something we've built to improve the current state of hiring in our industry. We think algorithmic interviews are the wrong metric, so we're trying to have a better approach. We tested this idea successfully for more than a year in a ~2K people company, saw great results, and decided to make it into a product[1].
If I had to sum up the idea in one sentence, it would be this: "to hire great software engineers, test their ability to deliver something as close to real work as possible." Thus, we build a product that provides a challenge, a CI pipeline, and a "production environment" -- what the candidate needs to do is deliver something that works, making pipeline green and iterate. Sans peer review, this closely resembles the actual way it happens at their jobs. Behind the scenes, our system runs all sorts of tests against the submission, simulating the actual production. I can spend a lot of time talking about it, but we'll blog[2] about it in more detail in the following weeks.
We're currently in the super early stages, but we have a working demo that I want to share so that people can play with it, break it, criticize it and hopefully have as much fun with it as we had when building it. If you want to give us more direct feedback -- feel free to reach out over email to demo+hn at autoiterative.com.
[1]: Direct link to the demo: https://ais.autoiterative.com/demo [2]: Our blog: https://autoiterative.com/blog