With the rapid rise of AI coding assistants, candidates can now solve traditional coding assessments more easily sometimes with significant external help.
This raises a bigger question for hiring teams:
If static coding tests primarily evaluate final output, are they still providing reliable signal in the first round?
We re seeing growing tension between:
We’ve been partnering with APADCode for the past few months.
What stood out wasn’t just the coding itself, but how the interview actually flows. You get to see how candidates think, rather than just blindly trusting what they submit. We also very liked the detailed dashboard and the post-interview breakdown.
After running it in parallel with our traditional human first rounds for number of candidates, we decided to move several key stacks over to APADCode for initial screening.
Of course, it doesn’t replace our full interview process or final rounds, but it gives us much stronger signal before that stage.
Looking forward to building more with the team