The best way to hire programmers

Section-I: Screening Programmers

Recruit

Problem:

Companies spend a lot of time in phone interviews. On an average a company rejects 7 out of the 10 developers interviewed in phone interview stage. This translates to 70 hours of engineering team that’s being wasted

Recruit

Problem:

Companies spend a lot of time in phone interviews. On an average a company rejects 7 out of the 10 developers interviewed in phone interview stage. This translates to 70 hours of engineering team that’s being wasted

Solution:

The ideal way is to find a solution to automate phone interviews that producesthe same or better results

Recruit

Problem:

Companies spend a lot of time in phone interviews. On an average a company rejects 7 out of the 10 developers interviewed in phone interview stage. This translates to 70 hours of engineering team that’s being wasted

Solution:

The ideal way is to find a solution to automate phone interviews that producesthe same or better results

interviewstreet.com/recruit

Recruit

What does Recruit do?

The product Recruit from interviewstreet helps companies screen candidates byinviting them to a programming test created by them. We have an in-built codechecker that evaluates a candidate’s code for correctness and optimality and categorizes them into ‘Extraordinary’ candidates, ‘Above average’ candidates, etc. This makes it very easy for companies to pick the candidates for interview.

What all languages does Recruit support?

All major languages – C, C++, Java, Python, Ruby, Scala, Clojure, Haskell, C#, SQL

Can I add my own programming questions?

Yes. You’re free to use our library questions as well.

Recruit

Who are your users?

Our product is used by large MNC’s like Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Zynga, etc.to SME’s like Flipkart, Cleartrip and also young startups like Drchrono

How much does it cost to use the product?

The product is on a pay-per-attempt model. Every test attempt costs $5

What’s your ROI?

On an average we save about 50 developer hours for every hire made. Case studies with Cleartrip, Flipkart can be found on our blog

Is it completely automated?

The results are generated instantly once the candidate completes a test andyou can proceed with the interviews immediately

Section-II: Powering Careers page

Powering careers pages

Careers/Jobs pages of companies are generally not paid attention to and just contains an email address asking candidates to send their resumes.

What if you had an interesting programming challenge on your careers page?

Powering careers pagesFacebook Amazon

Skype

And many more…

Powering careers pages

Companies love the programming challenges and this acts as an additional sourceof filtered programming leads from their careers page – double bonus!

Result:

Section-III: CodeSprint

CodeSprints

CodeSprints are programming contests that we hold every weekend. We invite companies to endorse a CodeSprint if they’re interested. At the end of the contest,the company can interact with the participants and hire programmers

CodeSprints

What does it take for a company to endorse a CodeSprint?

The company that’s endorsing a CodeSprint should be able to contribute at leastone programming problem to the contest. This not only acts as an advertising vehicle for the company but also engages programmers to get a peak at the real-world problems. It generally lasts between 5-8 hours

How much does it cost to endorse a CodeSprint?

We work with companies with two business models:

a. Pay-per-hire: This is a pay-per-hire model where the company pays us $10k USD for every programmer hired through the contest. If the company doesn’t hire anyone, they don’t pay us anything

b. Flat fee: This is an enterprise model where the company pays us $50K USD for conducting a CodeSprint. You can hire as many programmers you want

CodeSprints

What are some of the past CodeSprints you’ve conducted?

We’ve conducted a lot of CodeSprints endorsed by companies in the past:

1. Quora (quora.interviewstreet.com)2. Amazon (codeninja.interviewstreet.com)3. Adobe (adobe.interviewstreet.com)4. Sequoia Capital VC firm (sequoia.interviewstreet.com)and many more..

What has been the success rate of such CodeSprints?

People all across the globe participate and it’s an easy one-stop access for companies to pick the top talent across the globe. We’ve noticed companies hiring a lot of engineers in just a 5-hour programming contest.

CodeSprints

How many programmers participate in a CodeSprint?

This varies week over week. But the average has been 550+ programmers with the maximum being 2104 programmers

How do you advertise a CodeSprint?

We’ve daily challenges put up on our site which attract a lot of programmers whosolve daily. There are roughly 400-500 programmers who spend more than 90 minon our site every day. We’ve a good base of programmers to advertise

Has there been any successful hires via CodeSprint?

http://www.quora.com/Programming-Contests/Where-have-the-participants-of-the-different-Codesprints-ended-up

Of course, else we wouldn’t have such a demand

CodeSprints

Do you’ve any tie-ups with universities?

Yes, we recently conducted a collaborative campus challenge for the top schoolsin the US. We had over 400 university school students participating in it and Princeton University held the first rank.

Leaderboard: https://campus.interviewstreet.com/challenges/dashboard/#universityleaderboard

What kind of problems does CodeSprint support?

We support programming questions, approximate algorithm problems, gametheory programming problems, real-world app creation problems, mobile app building problems and more being added

Trivia:We’re working with the White house on a CodeSprint (yes you read thatright ) - www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/04/02/announcing-summer-jobs-code-sprint

Press

http://www.forbes.com/sites/nicoleperlroth/2011/08/25/yc-combinator-start-ups-guess-which-will-be-worth-a-billion/

http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/23/interview-street-codesprints/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15814537

Thank you dear customers. We value you the most.

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