We have added automated grading support for C++!

This means you can now create custom C++ assessments that contain unit tests (using the GoogleTest testing framework) that are automatically evaluated by CodeScreen:

See here for full details.

CodeScreen now supports live coding interviews!

You can now set up live interviews with candidates that performed well in your CodeScreen assessment to discuss their solution in further detail and ask them any follow-up questions.

We have coined the term Live Coding With Context to differentiate this feature from other live coding interviewing platforms.

The context comes from the candidate having the chance to first take your CodeScreen assessment in their own time & comfort, removing the negatives that come with the highly contrived & pressurized "on the spot" questions used in traditional live coding interviews.

See here for full details on how this new feature works.

When creating a new Custom Assessment, you can now import its description from a PDF file:

Once you create the assessment, CodeScreen generates a private template GitHub repo containing the PDF file you uploaded and a link to the file inside the repo's README:

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We hope you find this new feature useful! As always, if you have any questions or feedback, just let us know.

We have added Build Failed and Build Timeout as two new values for the Failure Reason displayed beside each candidate who fails an assessment.

The four possible Failure Reason values are now:

Build Failure - Occurs when a candidate's solution fails to build/compile, preventing our analysis runner from advancing to the stage where it runs the automated tests.

Build Timeout - Occurs when a candidate's solution is running for more than one hour.

Unit Tests - Occurs when a candidate's solution fails to pass the required number of passing unit tests for your assessment.

Expired - Occurs when a candidate does not start your assessment within the assessment's Deadline or starts the assessment but does not a push a commit to their GitHub repo within the assessment's Time Limit.

We hope you find this new feature useful! As always, if you have any questions or feedback, just let us know.

We have added a brand new section to CodeScreen called Analytics!

This section provides an overview of your account's usage with visual charts, allowing you to easily track and understand the key metrics in your screening process.

You can view the analytics on a company-wide level and also on a per-assessment level.

We provide various different charts, including funnels, line graphs, pie charts and box plots. You will soon be able to export the dashboards as PDFs and export the underling data to CSV files for further analysis.

We hope you find this new feature useful! As always, if you have any questions or feedback, just let us know.

You can now re-send an assessment to multiple candidates at once!

When you head to the Failed column in the candidate list for an assessment, you can tick the box on the left-hand side of each candidate you want it re-sent to.

You then click the Resend icon that appears once a box is ticked:

The following pop-up will appear where you can set the Deadline and Time Limit for the candidates you are re-sending the assessment to:

Once you click the blue Yes button, the candidates are re-sent the assessment and moved back into the In Progress column:

You can now edit the Deadline and Time Limit values when re-sending an assessment to a candidate.

Once you click into the Re-send Assessment section (see here), you will now see the following pop-up:

The Deadline and Time Limit will be set to the current values of these parameters for this assessment, but you can now edit these for this candidate you are re-sending the assessment to.

Note that customizing these values will only apply to the candidate you are re-sending the assessment.

We hope you find this useful! As always, if you have any questions or feedback, just let us know.

We have added a new QA assessment to our library. This assessment will help organizations select the best candidates for their open QA Engineer/SDET positions.

The goal of the assessment is for the candidate to create an Acceptance Testing plan for a newly built REST API. The candidate needs to write test cases in Java using the Rest Assured library that cover all scenarios that the API needs to handle.

CodeScreen then automatically calculates a score for each candidate's solution based on the number of scenarios their test cases cover. 

To view the full details of the assessment, please click into our library assessments, filter by the QA skill, and then click the More detail button for the QA Acceptance Testing assessment.

We’re pleased to announce that we have added support for creating custom assessments (with automated grading) in Elm!

Elm is a functional language that compiles to JavaScript. It is used to create reliable web applications and has a strong emphasis on simplicity & quality tooling.

For more information, check out this guide for creating custom Elm assessments.

As always, if you have any questions or feedback, just let us know.

We have added a Last Event column to the candidate table in the In Progress section for each assessment!

This makes it really easy now to see which step each candidate is at when taking one of your assessments. All events for a candidate can still be seen as usual in the Activity Log.

See here for the full list of event types.