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Funny, last week I wrote some notes about doing just this :). It would be hard to build a general purpose platform, but I think if it focused on just replacing

Funny, last week I wrote some notes about doing just this :). It would be hard to build a general purpose platform, but I think if it focused on just replacing the initial technical phone screen, it could be both reliable and useful. There's a common set of skills that most any software engineer should have. I think those skills can probably be checked via a web tool, and in higher fidelity than you can get over the phone. As a candidate applying to N jobs, I'd much rather take a web screen once instead of doing N technical phone interviews. And as an interviewer, I'd much rather not have to ask FizzBuzz again.

fitzwatermellow 12y ago
I envision something akin to the http pipeline in a web app the is composed of several "microservices". One stage of the pipeline is left intentionally out. The candidate then is required to build an actual service. They can use any language they want. Even any cloud host they choose. All that's provided is the entry points, exit points, wire protocol, data encoding, and the spec to be implemented. After passing that, advanced topics like logging, telemetry and performance provide grounds for further discussion to assess development "philosophy". But the real genius would be selling this work-sample platform-as-a-service to enterprise customers. Who could be prompted into building a catalog of microservices based upon their APIs and real data. And out of that hopefully some innovative, hackathon-esque mini-products could arise ;) I definitely never thought I would become an "HR guy". But I really like this idea. Will include a contact email in my profile if anyone is interested in discussing it further off HN as well...