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A few similar tools have popped up recently. Like this one, they look pretty good, and like improvements over skype et. al. However, they seem to solve the easy
by rguzman 13y ago
A few similar tools have popped up recently. Like this one, they look pretty good, and like improvements over skype et. al. However, they seem to solve the easy part of the problem and not the hard one.
The problem is evaluating a candidate. For that, one likely needs to do some live-coding in some capacity along with several other things. While the existing tools are subpar, they are good enough. The hard part is what questions to ask and how to go about judging the answers as to produce a good hiring signal without alienating candidates.
You can tell that remoteinterview is trying to address the real problem from their marketing copy. However, I am highly skeptical that giving team members the ability to up and down vote with comments on an etherpad + video is a big chunk of it or even an "in".
If I were working in this space I would only worry about how to produce evaluation materials given some information about a company and a candidate. It very well may be that it is not easy enough or possible to do that at scale or cost-effectively, but that seems to be the thing companies struggle with, not having to use skype.
- munirusman 13y agoVery well said. We have been thinking how to completely avoid human involvement in evaluation. We haven't figured out how but we are developing a feature to help interviewer in determining what to ask by using questions library. This won't solve the issue you pointed out completely but it will surely help interviewer to some extent.
- username223 13y ago> how to completely avoid human involvement in evaluation. Cool, so have I! Simple web searches produce answers to most of your automatically-generated questions that get by your cheap screeners, and fooling whatever program you write should be even easier.
- asadlionpk 13y agoYes, I have tried fooling many codility/interview street questions by searching around and finding code snippets. For a techie, its very very easy to fool offline/automated tools.
- elliottcarlson 13y agoIt all depends on your interview workflow imho. We (and previous places I have been at) do the standard phone screen/remote test - this is a pre-requisite before coming in for a full interview, which will take up more time and be a lot more hands on. Perhaps in this situation, this tool would be a great fit.
- asadlionpk 13y agoYes we also do phone screening even after having a look at the person's github and resume. The phone screening layer is their for a purpose. We don't want to waste time arranging an on-site interview of few hours only to find that you just wasted those hours.
- akanet 13y agoIf you're looking for product that takes a more serious stab at actually being able to evaluate the candidate during a coding interview, check out https://coderpad.io https://coderpad.io. We let you execute pretty much any code as you write it in real-time, letting you observe how a candidate approaches a problem much more holistically.
- epochwolf 13y agoWhat sold me on coderpad.io was the README_IF_YOU_ARE_HACKING_ME file in the working directory. Contents below: Hello! Hope you are enjoying CoderPad. I've added this file because a lot of people have emailed me voicing security concerns. Usually these concerns are to the tune of "programming language X lets me run Y system call." They're not wrong, you can run any system call! Security in CoderPad happens at the LXC sandbox layer. You are currently in an ephemeral container that will be destroyed upon your departure. You are welcome to run any privileged operation you can get your hands on. CoderPad is, after all, the highest fidelity programming interview tool there is. That said, if you do manage to uncover something like privilege escalation or data created by other users, I want to hear about it. You can email me at vincent@coderpad.io, and I look forward to hearing from you.