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9 Pre-Employment Tests to Hire Quality Talent

Finding the right person for the job goes beyond the resume.

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Video Interviewing: What It Is, How to Prepare, and Top Tools

Video interviewing has become a major part of the talent acquisition process for many companies.

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Why Video Interviewing Is a Must in the Hiring Process

Video interviewing is the process of virtually interviewing for an open job position using a webcam, a microphone, and the internet.

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Technical Skills Screening Software Glossary Terms

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Technical Skills Screening Software Discussions

Question on: CodeSignal

How do I vet candidates effectively using codesignal?

What is a good score to continue candidates to the next step?

I think you should be able to find candidates who score towards the top of the Codesignal scale. I say this because overall I think Codesignal asks questions that are easier than some other platforms, for instance Leetcode. Codesignal has 10 levels. IMO, you should probably pass on anyone scoring in the bottom half of these levels, a clear indication to me that this person might need some brushing up on basic skills, and perhaps they are not dedicating themselves to their craft. You probably would only want to consider 7 or higher. Again, this is my opinion, as an individual who has used Codesignal extensively for practice over the past few years. I think you can find candidates available who score in the 9 or 10 range on Codesignal without much issue. However, I am not sure how many Codesignal users have taken a proctored exam. I for one have not. And in any test taking environment, it is reasonable to consider that some individuals could do a little better if given another chance. Good luck to you. -Bob Young ```https://app.codesignal.com/profile/bob_y1```

Answered: Bob Young on March 17, 2020

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Question on: CodeSignal

What is the best way to make the most out of this platform?

Is there any feature that the platform provides which could accelerate my interview preparation. It would really benefit me as I am currently preparing for interviews for many companies and I haven't done much coding. I believe this is a good platform to practise, but I was concerned about which path would give the best results in a short period of time.

There is a two section they may help you too much : Company challenges Interview practice you find a lot of challenges used by well know companies, also some of them a litle bit hard so you can start by medium challenges

Answered: Hamdi Chahdi on November 19, 2019

Answered: Hamdi Chahdi on November 21, 2019

Hey Sai, I hope all is going well with your interview preparation. In regards to your question, it all depends on your programming knowledge. I would first attempt the interview section to help assess your strength and weaknesses. A requirement for this section is that you understand how to optimize your algorithms for either time or space complexity; brute force solutions will not work as the test cases can get very large and your algorithm will eventually exceed the execution time limit. This section covers a range of areas like linked lists, hash maps, sorting techniques, etc. You should be able to tackle the easy to medium challenges with no problem. The hard problems require a little more thought and organization, so make sure to break down the problem, write out your thought process and solve some test cases by hand with a whiteboard before touching the keyboard. Depending on your experience, you might eventually hit a wall and cannot solve the problem. This is your chance to do some research on the topic and then revisiting the problem when you're ready. Another alternative is to visit the 'Arcade Mode' and solve as many problems as you can. Don't be afraid to google for something like how to check if a character is a digit for example. Some people have never seen Character.isDigit(c) and it's totally fine to google/research topics that will enhance your knowledge; this is the way to succeed. One last tip is to take a look at the company bots and have fun reading the descriptions. I would only take a crack at these problems once you've completed the interview section and most of the arcade to be fully equipped with as many techniques to solve a problem. Make sure to have down time and space complexity and a solid understanding of data structures. Best of luck Sai!

Answered: Dennis LLopis on April 7, 2020

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How do engineering teams evaluate technical skills effectively early in the hiring process?

Early-stage evaluation inside technical skills screening is fundamentally a triage problem; the goal isn't a perfect assessment, it's a fast, reliable enough filter that doesn't waste interviewer time on candidates who were never going to pass anyway.

TestGorilla: Positions itself as the earliest-stage filter in the category, combining skills tests with resume scoring and ID verification before a human ever reviews a candidate, useful when the goal is trimming a large applicant pool fast.
HackerRank Developer Skills Platform: Reviewers describe it spanning "early screening to final interviews" in one platform, letting engineering teams move a candidate through increasingly rigorous technical checkpoints without switching tools.
CodeSignal: Built for an early, low-friction first filter, automated scoring gives instant feedback so engineering teams can triage a large pipeline before committing interviewer time to promising candidates.
Codility: Suited to teams that want early-stage screening to already reflect real job tasks rather than generic algorithm puzzles, given its library of 1,300-plus role-relevant tasks and work simulations.

Early-stage evaluation is really a triage problem, the earlier the filter, the more it needs to correlate with actual job performance rather than just test-taking speed. Which of these four is your team currently using at the earliest stage, and has it actually correlated with who performed well after hire?

The correlation question at the end is the one that actually matters here. It's worth going back and checking whether your early-stage filter has correlated with who performed well after hire, rather than assuming a fast triage step is automatically a good one.

Technical Skills Screening Software Resources

Articles, Glossary Terms, Discussions, and Reports to expand your knowledge on Technical Skills Screening Software

Technical Skills Screening Software Articles

9 Pre-Employment Tests to Hire Quality Talent

Video Interviewing: What It Is, How to Prepare, and Top Tools

Why Video Interviewing Is a Must in the Hiring Process

Technical Skills Screening Software Glossary Terms

Technical Skills Screening Software Discussions

Technical Skills Screening Software Reports