Articles By: CodeSignal

Checklist: Technical Interview Solutions Vendor Evaluation Criteria Guide

Interested in technical interview solutions? Before you start evaluating solutions, take a few minutes to define your business needs and objectives as they relate to the solutions you’re considering. This will help your team find a vendor whose solution(s) align best with your specific business needs. You can’t afford to get stuck with solutions that don’t meet your business objectives […]

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How to Solve the Biggest Challenges Faced by Engineering Hiring Managers

From a competitive tech talent market and too hard-to-fill roles to a lack of diversity and data, engineering hiring managers don’t have it easy. The good news is that despite the challenges there are solutions to help you and your team hire better, faster, and smarter. In this guide, you’ll learn how to:• Reduce interview time by implementing structured tech […]

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CodeSignal University Ranking Report 2023

This annual report ranks universities based on their students’ performance on CodeSignal’s General Coding Framework, a validated skills evaluation measuring fundamental programming ability with interactive code writing tasks. The 2023 CodeSignal University Ranking Report includes:• Full CodeSignal university rankings of top 50 US colleges & universities for software engineering• Top non-US schools for developer talent• Top 5 schools recruiters should […]

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Hiring Software Engineers? Here’s How To Prevent Drop-off From Top Candidates

Even in today’s uncertain economic climate, the demand for senior-level software engineers is on the rise. To attract and secure top candidates, companies must create a positive candidate experience throughout the hiring process. In this resource, Industrial-Organizational Psychologist Hayley Walton, MA, from CodeSignal’s Skills Evaluation Lab, provides research-backed best practices to improve candidate experience when using a technical assessment.

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4 Ways To Help Your Engineers Spend Less Time Interviewing

As the demand for skilled tech talent continues to rise, the role of software engineers in interviewing and assessing candidates has become increasingly important. However, the amount of time that engineers spend on recruitment-related tasks such as interviews, creating technical questions, and evaluating candidates is no longer sustainable. Recent research has shown that engineering managers can spend up to 15% […]

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5 Ways To Build A More Diverse Engineering Team (And Why You Need To)

Despite the growing focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) in many companies, engineering continues to lag behind other job types. One major contributor to this ongoing problem is the bias-laden methods used in technical recruiting, such as traditional resume reviews and interviews, that fail to promote diversity. While early-career candidates from renowned universities like MIT are highly sought after […]

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Putting Talent First: How to Optimize the Candidate Experience

Have you ever applied for a job only to never hear back? Chances are, this experience made you less likely to recommend the organization to a friend—and to think twice before applying there again. This is just one example of how candidate experience, also known as candidate reactions, has major implications for your company’s hiring processes and beyond. In this […]

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The 3 Secrets for Hiring Top Tech Talent (with the Resources You’ve Got)

It’s a complicated time to be hiring software engineers. Even with today’s uncertain economic climate and highprofile layoffs, companies continue to recruit aggressively for specialized and senior-level technical roles. Yet, technical hiring is harder than it should be. Resource strapped recruiting teams struggle to source qualified talent for high-priority tech roles, engineers are stretched thin by spending too much time […]

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