Codility

Owned by Angelina Playter (Deactivated)
Last updated: Jan 18, 2019 by Brittanie Keyser
3 min read

This tool has solely been researched by the WilsonHCG Innovation team.

Summary


At Codility, we believe there is a better way to do tech recruitment. We’re excited to tackle some of the biggest challenges businesses face—effectively attracting, screening, interviewing, and engaging top developers. Our mission is to help tech hiring teams identify the most promising candidates in their recruiting pipeline by giving them deeply accurate insights into coders’ real-life skills, while also creating a great candidate experience. We're passionate about connecting great companies with the best programmers.

Codility came into existence in 2005 when Greg Jakacki was looking for a quicker, better way to recruit software engineers for the IT startup he worked for in China. The result of his early work was the bare bones prototype of the platform, aimed at reducing the number of programming interviews with unqualified candidates. In 2009, we won the Seedcamp competition and soon afterwards registered in London, UK. Codility developed rapidly, moving its headquarters to Warsaw, Poland and expanding its global presence through an office in San Francisco, CA.


Product Summary


  1. CodeCheck - Screen Your Candidates Accurately. Use CodeCheck to assess real-life development skills, fundamental programming skills, and technical knowledge. 
  2. CodeLive - Run Better Tech Interviews. CodeLive provides an online room to collaborate and code with your candidates in real-time tech interviews.
  3. CodeChallenges - Engage Engineers Online. Use CodeChallenges to ignite action amongst your developer database of fans and followers, or at specific events
  4. Sponsored Challenges - Build Your Employer Brand.Cast a wider net by sponsoring an online coding challenge on Codility's Programmers' Home.
  5. CodeTrain - Train and Assess Your Team. Use CodeTrain to align your L&D programs with the key skills you want to uplevel in your team. 

Additional Resources

Technology Demo Notes

12.18.2017 Call Notes

Attendees: Rebecca Khosrowfar, Angelina Playter

  • Assessments/Tests/Coding
  • Process:
    • Batch Invite
    • Create Test
      • Name of position
      • Job Description
      • Within 24 hours the test is created - Pick up on requirements and creates question around that, questions determined by Codility’s technical team
        • Test can be checked by Hiring Manager by sending to them
      • Options:
        • 1 - Title & JD created by Codility team
        • 2 - You can utilize template assessments
        • 3 - Manual test creation
    • Invite candidates via email
      • Customize outreach message
  • Choose between a bank of tests
  • Questions can be focused on specific programs, etc.
  • Training used internally in the organization for quarterly trainings/refreshers
  • Price depends on users & # of assessments
  • Ability to set time limit on tests
  • Ability to provide candidate with feedback immediately after the assessment
    • They advise to discuss in feedback sessions afterwards.
  • Reviewing of test results:
    • Email notification
    • Add notes
    • Full report can be requested (provided within 2 days and provides info on the coding logic, in depth analysis)
    • Video playback of the candidates actions
    • Data can be downloaded and exported to Excel
  • Codelive Interview
    • Normally next steps
    • Schedule via normal practices (scheduling not a part of the tool)
    • Pull this up on the screen during interview process
  • Ability to add custom tasks/questions
  • Possibility of a 2 week trial for 10 candidates, Many users in system, only need user Emails
  • Ability to integrate with ATS
  • Helps with processes of:
    - technical assessments at the initial stages of recruitment process
    - sourcing 
    - interviewing (with Codelive)
    - internal trainings and assessments

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