Byteboard stood out since it assesses, on a real world way, engineering skills, rather than relying on interview performance only. The take-home exercises are designed to reflect practical work. From a TA perspective, it helped reduce interviewer bias and fatigue by standardizing the evaluation process. The structured rubrics made it easier to compare candidates consistently. It was also valuable in the early stages of the funnel, since it allowed us to screen candidates in a way that was more aligned with our on the job expectations, while reducing the amount of sync interview time required from our eng team.

The idea of having a break in the middle of the test is good

Real time run code in the test UI is both a blessing and a curse -- the curse part being that it compels you to keep typing in running code as fast as possible, even when the test objective is to show design considerations and not final code.