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CodeSignal

Score9.2 out of 10

175 Reviews and Ratings

What is CodeSignal?

CodeSignal is a technical skills assessment platform that enables companies to quickly hire qualified candidates for technical roles. With over 70 coding languages and tools and a built in plagiarism checker, companies can be confident that the candidates they select will be successful in their new roles.

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Who Buys & Uses CodeSignal

CodeSignal Reviews

What users are saying about CodeSignal.
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Helping us scale.

Incentivized
Will RubinView profile
Team Manager, Technical Talent Acquisition in Human Resources at Greenhouse (501-1000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use CodeSignal to conduct our entire slate of virtual technical interviews. The platform allows us to customize our engineering assessments fully and test candidates' skills across a variety of technical verticals. Ensured hiring of strong technical talent is critical to growing our organization and delivering new functionality. CodeSignal enables us to do just that, all while delivering an excellent candidate experience.

Pros

  • Flexibility - we can customize our assessments to our specific needs.
  • Usability - CodeSignal is very user friendly.

Cons

  • I'd love more reporting functionality within the testing platform.
  • Getting in-app recommendations on how my team can best conduct technical assessments would be great.

Return on Investment

  • We're able to build technical assessments that match our interview needs. This saves us time and money.
  • We're able to get a strong read on our technical hires' abilities, which helps us make informed decisions in the hiring process. Otherwise, this would be costly to the business.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

TestGorilla and CoderPad

Other Software Used

Greenhouse, monday.com, hireEZ

CodeSignal Review.

Incentivized
Verified User
Director in Human Resources (1-10 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

CodeSignal has been an excellent resource for screening technical candidates throughout our recruitment process. They understand how to evaluate technical skills by offering standardized tests while allowing you to create and customize your assessments.

Pros

  • Coding Evaluation.
  • Comprehensive Scoring.
  • Customizable Assessments.

Cons

  • Live coding assessments could offer more templates for all common programming languages.

Return on Investment

  • CodeSignal has helped my team to refine our talent pipelines with strong technical candidates.

Usability

Up Your Game!

Incentivized
Verified User
Employee in Human Resources (201-500 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Using the CodeSignal platforms allows us to make data-driven technical decisions about candidates' experience levels today and gives us insight into how they learn while concentrating on a great candidate experience. The platform streamlines the front end of the pipeline with assessments that give us a baseline on experience levels, saving time for recruiting.

Pros

  • Skill level.
  • Professional look.
  • Upskilling current engineers.

Cons

  • Better integration with ATS.

Return on Investment

  • We can concentrate more on our EVP, while relying on Codesignal.
  • Interviewers can look more holistically at a candidate, while Codesignal is looking technically.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

HackerRank

Other Software Used

SeekOut, LinkedIn Recruiter

Getting a job with CodeSignal!

Incentivized
Bryan MartinezView profile
Student ITS Programmer in Engineering at Ramapo College Of New Jersey (11-50 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use CodeSignal in order to prep for interviews within the software engineering field. This product helps to prep for tech interviews while simultaneously allowing companies to pre-screen candidates in an effective manner. CodeSignal gauges the technical competencies of candidates by asking them four tech questions and then deriving a score based on a multitude of factors like how fast they solve the question and how many test cases they pass etc. This score will then be sent to companies along with a report which is in theory supposed to identify whether candidates are competent enough technically to be moved into the next round. As it pertains to my use case, I was looking for software engineering internships in the summer, and tons of companies used this platform to screen candidates so whether I wanted to or not, it was in my best interest to practice and become familiar with the platform as much as possible.

Pros

  • CodeSignal is very effective at giving companies a third party way to efficiently screen candidates before moving them into their next rounds of interviewing
  • CodeSignal is effective at scoring and judging a candidate's technical competence with a reasonable margin of error
  • CodeSignal has a great support team that responds very quickly and handles issues adeptly

Cons

  • There have been some loopholes identified in terms of approaching the assessments, which can potentially compromise the integrity of the assessment.
  • CodeSignal's biggest problem for me is that you can't take an assessment again. You have to wait 14 days. This is tough because if you do a test for one company and you don't like your score, your only options are to send the bad score or wait to take another test which can be problematic due to the strict deadlines some companies impose.
  • CodeSignal could use a better way to prepare for the assessments within the website. Maybe like a 'module' on how to approach the test etc. This is because CodeSignal, while providing similar questions like the Leetcode website or the like, will occasionally ask questions that are far different from what is typical in tech interviewing websites.

Most Important Features

  • Its feature of providing companies a score of a candidate's technical prowess is pivotal to CodeSignal.
  • The capability to calculate an accurate score that is representative of a candidate's technical competency.
  • Making it easy and convenient to have all the companies you are interviewing for be in one place where you can take one test and send it to all companies saving you so much time!

Return on Investment

  • Has helped me get better at solving technical interview questions
  • Has saved me time when entering the interviewing rounds with companies
  • Has streamlined online assessments and allowed me to make a good impression when I had a good score but also a bad impression when I had a bad score

Alternatives Considered

HackerRank

Other Software Used

HackerRank

Excellent

Incentivized
Jay DangarView profile
Software Engineer in Engineering at Apping Technology (1-10 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It simulates the actual online coding assessment from different companies, which helps alot in interview preparation

Pros

  • code completion
  • innovative problems
  • coding assessment
  • Curated list
  • Resembles actual coding environment

Cons

  • More coding assessments
  • tutorials to solve the problems
  • Company wise interview questions

Most Important Features

  • Code Auto complete
  • General Assessment
  • Unique sets of questions

Return on Investment

  • I improved my coding skills
  • Thought process is improved
  • coding speed is improved as well

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Android Studio, Notepad++ and Atom

Other Software Used

Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Notepad++, Atom

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