TIRA by Formation

Name: TIRA by Formation
Rating: 5.0 (1 reviews)

Free SWE assessment, focus your interview prep & get hired

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Free SWE assessment, focus your interview prep & get hired

5.0•1 review•

304 followers

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The Technical Interview Readiness Assessment (TIRA) is a free 45-min adaptive assessment helping SWEs understand their exact skill profile and companies they're ready to interview for — packed with actionable feedback to get technical interview ready.

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Launch tags:Software Engineering•Developer Tools•Online Learning

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Corbado

💡 Bright idea

This is so cool! Do you plan on building something similar for Product Managers? I'd highly appreciate that!

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2yr ago

TIRA by Formation

Maker

@lrueger Love the excitement! I hear you that Product Managers have been feeling the impacts of the job market recently too. We don't have that on the roadmap at the moment as our core demographic is SWEs (we were founded by ex-Meta SWEs, so that career is near and dear to our core!), but we've been working with some other creators and resources to collaborate on SWE / Product Manager Interview Prep Content that should hopefully be helpful to PMs like yourself :) Noted on the demand though — always good to hear from folks in the market themselves!

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2yr ago

Corbado

@nicole_rose_balsamo Thank you! It's definitely the right way to focus on SWEs. I think when you focus on technical PMs, you can really well expand the product to that direction. I'm sure you have enough connections from Meta to find the right content for that, but that's for another time. Good luck for today's launch!

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2yr ago

Clous

Non-traditional talent is often deprived from a job opportunity because the interviewees don't assess their skills right. I believe this tool is really needed, both for candidates self-assessment and for recruiters (maybe?). Congrats for the launch, love the UI and the problem you're solving!

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2yr ago

TIRA by Formation

Maker

@alvarovillalb_ Thanks for your support and feedback! We couldn't agree more — we see this as a free resource to help bridge that gap for non-traditional talent. We're eager to keep building the product in a way that is helpful and actionable to the standard end-user (SWE), and ideally for recruiters or hiring teams during candidate vetting too! 🚀

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2yr ago

Raycast

Hunter

This is such a well-timed product... And provides engineers and developers finding themselves in transition (by choice or by circumstance) an essential resource to calibrate their current capabilities and where they can grow. 💪💪💪

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2yr ago

TIRA by Formation

Maker

@chrismessina 👏👏👏 so grateful for your support and shared excitement on this tool! We couldn't agree more 🚀

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2yr ago

TIRA by Formation

Maker

@chrismessina can't thank you enough for these words and for believing in our product. Cheers! 🥂

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2yr ago

TIRA by Formation

Maker

Hey all, Nicole from Formation here! 👋 I am STOKED to be part of the team launching the TIRA (or Technical Interview Readiness Assessment!). While not an engineer myself, my career of working at tiny start-ups has led itself to me working closely with countless engineers to build products that I (as a Marketer) love to market. Engineer, marketer, or anyone in between — very few have been spared by the tumultuous tech market. The “Year of Efficiency” is in its second year, and we’ve already started 2024 with thousands of layoffs. The reality is that countless of highly qualified engineers are competing for a select number of roles — so those that are on the job hunt need to be more prepared than ever. The TIRA is an absolutely free way to test your... 👩‍💻 SWE skills and weaknesses 🤝 Find out the types of companies you’re ready to interview at 🤔 Receive actionable feedback to guide your interview prep. All aimed at helping you... ☄️ Bounce back 📈 Level up 🚀 Land a role faster. Thank you for letting us be part of your job hunt journey. We can’t wait to see where it takes you! and a HUGE thank you to Chris Messina for being as stoked about this as I am and Hunting our product!!!

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2yr ago

Workast

@nicole_rose_balsamo hi! This looks great, I am a software engineer myself, now hiring technical talent. We are also launching today our HR product to help with resume screening, which who knows, maybe there is a collaboration in the future. All the best!

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2yr ago

TIRA by Formation

Maker

@guillegette love it!! will go check out your launch 💪 would love to hear your feedback on the tool as a SWE yourself! best of luck on the launch!

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2yr ago

@nicole_rose_balsamo amazing, excited to see Formation continues to push the envelope here!

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2yr ago

TIRA by Formation

Maker

Hey all, Tala from Formation here! My background is in both software engineering at Reddit & Instagram 👨‍💻, and also in education and teaching 🍎. I’m passionate about helping engineers close their skill gaps and develop their skills — two things that couldn’t be more important in this job market. It’s been an honor to work on the TIRA and get immediate feedback from our early users about just how valuable the results were — how it made their focus tighter and their prep plan clearer. We’d love to hear from YOU! Do you feel like you learned something new while taking the assessment, and do you feel like these results are strong enough to focus your studies?

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2yr ago

TIRA by Formation

Maker

👋 Toby here, Lead Product Designer at Formation, previous Product Designer at Codecademy. After working with tons of engineers who want to level up to their next role, I kept seeing how hard it is to prepare for the technical interview process. What types of questions do I *actually* need to prepare for? Where should I focus my time training? Should I just jump into Leetcode? It’s so easy to just start doing problems without a gameplan and spin your wheels. That’s what got us super excited about building TIRA — an assessment that gives you direct feedback on where you stand, what companies you're ready for, and where to focus to continue leveling up. We’ve designed the experience to efficiently hone in on your *personal* skill level and for the results to be actually useful is driving the topic areas you focus on next. As always, there’s a ton we can do to continue improving the assessment — we’d love any thoughts or feedback at all! Thanks in advance, you got this 💪

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2yr ago

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Love this line from @sophienovati: "People from underrepresented backgrounds continue to be disproportionately hit." The TIRA looks amazing 💪. It would be even more helpful if it could help candidates with scenario questions as well, which arguably are even harder for under represented candidates to overcome. Not everyone is great at story telling and unfortunately this causes them to fail at scenario questions, even though they're actually really really smart and capable.

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2yr ago

TIRA by Formation

Maker

@jgani thank you. I think it's a fact that we all need to be cognizant of. It's when times are tough where companies can show how much DEI truly matters to them. Thank you for the support 🙏. I agree WHOLE HEARTEDLY with people from underrepresented backgrounds struggling with telling their stories that gives them the credit they deserve. At the Formation Fellowship, it's something we provide a lot of career coaching and 1:1 support on, and this is probably one of the tougher topics to distill into an automated test, but is definitely on the radar alongside many other topics like systems design, frontend, and many more so stay tuned!!

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2yr ago

TIRA by Formation

Maker

@jgani, that's solid insight. As URM myself, this was a huge gap during my interview performance. Unfortunately, technical/behavioral questions are so varied and nuanced that a programmatic assessment is complex. And if not done well, it could even be detrimental. Disclaimer: I work at Formation, and was a fellow there before that. At Formation, we use our technology to help you prepare for these interview scenarios and pair you with a mentor who can give you real-time feedback. Our methodology takes a holistic view of your needs and seeks to help you tackle them. Take a look at our site, and feel free to reach out to the team with any questions you might have!

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2yr ago

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