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Effective React Coding Test Design: How to Ensure a Fair and Accurate Evaluation
A survey conducted by Stack Overflow in 2021 revealed that React was the most popular front-end web framework among front-end developers, with over 56% of respondents reporting that they had used it before. Similarly, a report published by GitHub in 2020 showed that React was the third most popular project on the platform, after only […]
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Beyond the Basics: 73 Advanced Coding Interview Questions for Experienced Developers [+1 Code Challenge]
Employing experienced developers is essential to developing a successful technology team, but evaluating their technical expertise can be difficult. With so many programming languages, tools, and frameworks available, it can be challenging to know what questions to ask during a technical interview. This article will discuss the best practices for evaluating the technical skills of […]
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From Screening to Hiring: How to Create a Technical Hiring Process
Technical hiring is slightly challenging as compared to a non-technical hiring. There is a lot of depth in the rapidly evolving programming languages and frameworks. Even for programmers, you need to assess their non-technical skills such as communication, flexibility, ability to lead, etc. However, using some of the best practices along with adoption of online […]
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The Importance of Data-Driven Hiring in a Competitive Talent Market
Today we will discuss data-driven hiring as it relates to recruiting software developers. We will provide an overview of what data-driven hiring is, its benefits, what kind of data is important to track, and what are the most common data limitations. What is Data-Driven Hiring Data-driven hiring is an approach centered around collecting data and […]
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9 Reasons Why Every Tech Company Should Implement Pre-Employment Testing
Do you use pre-employment tests in your hiring process? Generally, pre-employment tests are designed to assess candidates on various skills and qualities such as cognitive ability, critical thinking, and personality, among many others. In this article, we will take a look at pre-employment tests for programming roles and present 9 reasons why every tech company […]
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The Top 5 Coding Challenges for Conducting Technical Interviews
Evaluating the technical skills of a candidate is not an easy task. For technical positions, especially where programming is involved, a code challenge is one of the ways to evaluate a candidate. You will see many general code challenges involving arrays, LinkedList, sorting, and so on. While these coding challenges do evaluate candidates to some […]
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Should You Use Coding Assessments in Your Hiring Process?
Are you struggling to find and evaluate technical talent? Recruiting software engineers is one of the most challenging aspects of hiring due to the high demand for talent and the difficulty in evaluating the candidates that you do get. When it comes to coding, resumes are far less important compared to more traditional skills and […]
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Here’s Why You Should Use a Technical Assessment Tool for Hiring Engineers
Recruiting for technical roles can present its own set of challenges. One of these challenges is determining the true level of skill and expertise of a candidate based on their resume alone. To overcome this, methods such as coding challenges, technical assessments, and pair programming can be effective at assessing a candidate’s technical capabilities. Technical […]
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What’s New in January 2023: Introducing R Language Support, Security Updates & More
With the new year come new CodeInterview features to help you screen and evalute technical talent. Here’s a summary of our latest updates: Introducing R language support and other new libraries Want to try these out? Scroll down on the languages tab to select them under the ‘Core’ option: Bug fixes and other improvements As […]
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The Top 5 Coding Interview Tools to Hire Better Software Engineers in 2023
Did you know the cost of a wrong engineering hire can go up to 3x their annual salary? That’s because costs go beyond repeating the recruitment process. A bad hire could impact team morale, reduce productivity and even harm your reputation as an employer. This is why thoroughly evaluating talent during the hiring journey is […]