CodeSignal Assessments & Live Tech Interviews

I used it as an IDE  and as a platform for giving interviews for various companies. When I was recruiting at my last organization, I used it as a recruitment tool for code pairing.

My main use case for CodeSignal Interview  is for real-time collaborative coding in a pair-coding environment, where I give a hard problem to a candidate and we can pair-code together, similar to how we would work in a real-life office scenario. This helps me get a great assessment of whether the person would be a suitable collaborative team member.

CodeSignal Interview also provides a vast capability of existing problem questions, existing solutions, executions, and the candidate's attempts to the questions. It shows all of that information, which has been one of my use cases when I was using it for hiring my team.

CodeSignal Interview offers several kinds of integrations as the best features. There was an integration with Workday , where candidate results would be published and mapped to Workday  if we selected the candidate. For scheduling interviews, it connects with Google Calendar, Calendly , and other similar software. Additionally, CodeSignal allows for session recordings when code edits are made or during interviews.

The integrations and session recording feature have helped my workflow by allowing for certain calibrations to be done, such as determining if a question was hard or easy for different candidates, or allowing supervisors and senior team members to revisit how decisions were made. The session recording features come in handy for these purposes. The integration with Google Calendar helps recruiters check the panel's availability and schedule interviews directly using CodeSignal, providing a seamless experience rather than using multiple tools and software.

CodeSignal Interview has positively impacted my organization by speeding up our hiring process. When my last organization was scaling quickly, it came in handy because rather than manually scheduling interviews, we were able to pre-screen candidates and conduct quick pair-coding sessions that gave us proper insights in a very short amount of time. All the grading, syntax checks, and everything else was done by CodeSignal, which saved us tons of manual labor.

CodeSignal Interview can be improved in terms of scalability for when volumes might be too high or when multiple interviewers are using a single CodeSignal Interview license. Additionally, when interviews are customized for data science or hardcore software development roles but I am a QA professional, a customized template library or the ability to customize a set of questions within CodeSignal Interview would be helpful features to implement.

I have used CodeSignal Interview  multiple times depending on the situation, since it serves as both a hiring tool and a platform I used when looking for job changes.

CodeSignal Interview is stable.

CodeSignal Interview's scalability was sufficient for the scale our organization was at that stage, which was a 500 to 1,000 person organization. It was pretty sufficiently scalable when we bought multiple licenses.

I had no need to interact with customer support, so I cannot comment.

We previously used HackerRank , and I found CodeSignal Interview to be better and cheaper.

We have seen a return on investment with specific examples. Earlier we used to take multiple interview rounds, and CodeSignal Interview saved one interview round per interview. Now we have started using assessments and code pairing exercises. This has saved the total number of hours per interview and has had a positive impact.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing includes us having bought two or three licenses for our set of interview panels within QA. I am not aware about setup costs or pricing in general, as those things were taken care of by the central team.

Before choosing CodeSignal Interview, I evaluated other options such as HackerRank  and Codelity.

I rate CodeSignal Interview an eight out of ten.

I choose eight out of ten because of somewhat lacking reporting aspects or how visually an aggregated report can be seen by somebody who is head of hiring. For them, CodeSignal can do better. Additionally, there is a lack of customized questions for QA. For those two reasons, I deduct two points.

My advice to others looking into using CodeSignal Interview is to use it to save time if you are a hiring manager. It frees up time for your junior resources who might be spending time interacting with candidates who are completely unrelated or not suitable to the requirements and the target hiring criteria. CodeSignal Interview works much better in a standardized assessment test format. My overall review rating for CodeSignal Interview is eight out of ten.