Meet the most candidate-friendly skills assessment platform.

The status quo

As more and more candidates started applying for roles, companies started looking for ways to automate the initial rounds of screening.

Traditional assessments use the equivalent of puzzles/ obscure computer science questions or niche algorithms that nobody ever uses in practice.

While it's great if someone's good at puzzles (even though this skill can be improved with practice), this is not a strong indicator of how good of an engineer someone is/ how good they're going to be in the role. Also, this way of measuring developer skills' has an inherent bias against more experienced developers.

As an interviewer it is very easy to forget how stressful the interview setting is for the interviewee. Having to write executable code for a very niche algorithm you studied at school (that too only if you were a CS major), and never really used in your time as an engineer in the real world, with the timer ticking, can be very intimidating! 😨

Ideal solution in an ideal world

A lot of developers who've previously faced these ridiculous tests suggest that companies talk to them instead of sending over a test. While this would be a no-brainer to do in an ideal scenario, this is not possible when you have 120 candidates applying for 1 role.

Yes, ideally you want to assess their ability to write clean, maintainable code, their experience with your tech stack and their ability to work collaboratively with the team to arrive at solutions to difficult problems. But before setting up a 2 hour interview with each of 120 candidates you want to know if the candidate can write ANY code. Anyone who has never been on the interviewer's side of the table will be surprised by how many candidates cannot write code.

For very senior engineering positions (8+ years of experience), it absolutely makes sense to interview every candidate who appears to be qualified for the role and it is quite doable as well since there are significantly fewer candidates.

The real world

Software engineers tend to not be good at selling themselves, and great candidates often massively undersell themselves on paper. At best, a resume screen helps you eliminate some candidates who are very clearly not qualified for the role and sort resumes by priority. Beyond that, using a resume filter has an inherent bias towards candidates with good credentials (education and work history).

Good programmers can come from anywhere, and using keyword matching means you're probably missing out on a lot of great candidates.

So, after that really long rant, what is it that we're trying to do?

What we’re building at Adaface

Pre-employment tests are here to stay. We're trying to make them better.

We're building a way for companies and candidates to quickly find out if they're a good fit. For companies to figure out who the best suited candidates for their role are, while still being humane with the interview process. And for candidates to figure out if they'd be a good fit. If ability/ experience expectations are mismatched, an in-person interview is a waste of time for all parties.

At Adaface, we set up 30-45 min candidate-friendly assessments that test for on-the-job skills. For each role in a company, our subject matter experts design a custom assessment based on the requirements of the role.

Here's what we're doing differently from the status quo:

• Shorter assessments (30-45 mins) to make sure candidates can do it ASAP, they are investing as less time as possible, while still enough to showcase their expertise.
• Custom assessments tailored to the requirements of the role (NO trick questions)
• Questions at the simpler end of the spectrum (it is a screening interview) with a very generous time allowance (3x what it takes our team to write code for it)
• Granular scoring that eliminates false positives and false negatives
• Friendly candidate experience (hints for each question, friendly messaging and chatbot; average candidate NPS is 4.4/5)

Hopefully, you've gotten a good sense of why we started Adaface and we've convinced you it is a good idea. 🙂

Challenging the status quo is never easy, and we're looking for help from early adopters like yourself. We'd absolutely love for you to check out the product/ reach out! 🤩