Key Interview Features

Overview

We have made some key updates to interview to enhance the candidate experience and make the interview process seamless between the screening and interview stages to ensure you can conduct effective technical interviews. Continue to read below for details.

We're also hosting a webinar for a detailed walk-through of the new enhancements and to discuss interview best practices. Register here! 

Test - Interview Integration

In a typical interview workflow, the screening and technical interview rounds are often disconnected: candidates complete the online challenge on test and then complete another challenge live during a technical interview with the hiring manager or on-site via interview. 

A more effective way to conduct technical interviews would be to create a technical evaluation that builds on itself, building on previously submitted code from the screening stage in later interview stages. This approach gives interviewers the opportunity to review the code with the candidate in real-time, ask questions, and better understand the candidate’s approach to problem-solving. Add complexity to the original challenge and understand the candidate’s ability to think on their feet, collaborate, and solve problems. 

To enable this effective interviewing process, we have integrated our test and interview solutions. Starting today, interviewers can import the candidate’s screening test (questions and submitted code from test) into a interview session and collaborate in a live pair programming session. See below. 

Learn how to use this integration here. 

REPL

We take your candidate experience seriously and continuously improve our platform with developer-friendly tools to ensure they have the best possible experience. As part of that effort, we’re excited to bring REPL support for interview.

With REPL (Read-eval-print-loop), candidates and interviewers can easily evaluate the correctness of a block of code by executing them separately. It lets candidates code, problem-solve, and troubleshoot efficiently, which makes for a great candidate and interviewer experience. REPL is currently supported for Python, JavaScript and Ruby.

Learn more about how to use REPL here.

Enhanced User Interface

We have redesigned the interview user interface (UI) to simplify navigation and provide more room for candidates and interviewers to code. We have also introduced a dark theme, all-time candidate favorite, across the product and renamed a few features for clarity. These include: 

• “Notes” tab has been renamed to “Interviewer Notes”
• “STDIN” tab has been renamed to “Input”
• “STDOUT” tab has been renamed to "Output”
• Separate "Run Tests" and "Run Code" buttons, both of which display results in the "Output" tab. 

• For REPL enabled languages, real-time execution of code (typing/pasting in code and receiving instant output) can be experienced in the "Console" tab.

Using Interview and Test for Effective Technical Interviews 

Want more information about using interview for your technical interviews? Join us on August 29th to deep dive on interview best practices, including a detailed walkthrough of how test and interview can help!

Join the Webinar here.