Coderbyte for Employers Pros and Cons

There were a few things that I liked:

1. The quality of the pre-made questions. Especially for the coding assessments.

2. The ability to review the answers in depth.

3. The cheating detection and being able to see exactly what the candidates did Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. Some of the UX feels clunky, like preparing custom interview questions

2. Connectivity issues when using the Interview UI

3. A lack of a "tidy" or "prettify" in the code editor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The interface was good. Simple and easy. Customer support was great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

No option to upload photos in takehome assessment. I felt that candidates need to see some pictures directly on the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to setup, Fast and friendly, highly recommended Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Limit on the parallel test. Otherwise, its an awesome tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Really easy to use, vast content to choose, plagiarism feature very usefull, and many other nice features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not really have something I dislike. The "end subscription" button didn't have in the past but now is available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I checked out a lot of options and couldn't find a similarly-priced solution for our micro-company of 10 employees and 1 engineer. The "industry standard" companies had base plans that would have cost us ~$5000/year. With Coderbytes PPC, we get to interview 30 candidates for $350/year. I imagine this will last us atleast 2 years. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Answers to most of the questions could easily be found online. I had to put in a few hours of work to create my own questions and/or modify their questions to make sure users couldn't easily pull from the internet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Strengths of the tool:

1. Intuitive platform - the participants can easily guide themselves and we have received positive feedback comparing to other tools

2. Provides the features of both being able to invite pax privately with a personalized message (set a personalized deadline) AND copy a public link so you can massively send it to a group of people.

3. Very helpful customer support and frequent emails about new features/ upgrades.

4. Video recordings of the participants writing code can help to avoid cheating.

5. Some challenges can be resolved in more than one languages, so, one assessment can serve for more cases ;) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Points of improvement:

1.Result-oriented results: Usually, the results received by the candidates are of 0-50%-100% scale per task, according to whether the participants' code runs properly or not. Ideally, as an IT recruiter, I would like to have some additional comments about why the result is shaped as it is/ what is the type of mistake in the code. This will help me evaluate whether the candidate deserves a 2nd chance/ had a difficult day or if they lack knowledge on the specific language

2. Accordingly, I would love to receive less "binary" results. (ex: 111%, 56%, etc)

3. **Major inconvenience**: Searching for the proper activity: In the "challenges selection" section, you cannot sort or filter the challenges in any way. I would love to have the opportunity to sort the challenges according to: time, difficulty, success rate, number of candidates who have taken the task, etc. Also, I cannot see the "tags" per task unless I add the challenge to my exercise. As a result, I may select an activity that is called "Array addition" and think that it ccan be resolved with multiple languages and later realize that it has - for instance- "Java" as a tag. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Coderbyte for Employers provides easy to use and very useful features to evaluate candidates. It provides user-friendly ability to inteviewers and recruiters to find the right candidates for the job! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As of now I don't see any downsides with respect to features. One feedback that I have is regarding super admin access. I was already registered to Coderbyte before as a general user (not super admin). This year I subscribed to Coderbyte as a Super Admin but it was not allowing me to login as a Super Admin and was taking me to my old general user account. I had to get my super admin account password reset by sending email to Coderbyte to be able to login to my account. This process can be made better. May be if an email is already registered, and user buys subscription on the same email, both accounts should get merged to a single account with higher privilege. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The User Interface and the easy availability of the most accessible menus.

The permissions part is handled well in the Ui as well.

The graph shown to allow admin to analyse the candidates is well designed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The coding questions arrangement changes each time any question is edited.

So for example if I edit one python coding question then the indentation changes for the rest of the question as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Simple to get up and running, good high-level reporting structure to easily see what candidates acceled. Full record of coding exercise helps catch cheating. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I forgot to cancel our subscription after the hire was made :) Would have been nice to get some sort of utilization email. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ability to take off-the-shelf coding exercises and fit them into our technical assessment was easy and straight forward. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

some skill sets were limited (more focus on terraform and ansible required) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.