TIRA by Formation

Free SWE assessment, focus your interview prep & get hired

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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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Chris Messina
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. 💪💪💪
Nicole Rose Balsamo
@chrismessina 👏👏👏 so grateful for your support and shared excitement on this tool! We couldn't agree more 🚀
Sophie Novati
@chrismessina can't thank you enough for these words and for believing in our product. Cheers! 🥂
Pierson Marks
Agree with the comments around this being a perfectly timed product with the mass layoffs that are hitting tech. I'm wondering, though, that the questions and the traditional sense of software engineering interviews will change. I interviewed over 50+ people during my time at Amazon and truly believe that the interview process (at least for junior/mid-level engineers) needs to be completely overhauled. Juniors need to know system design, not dynamic programming questions. ChatGPT can do that for you :)
Sophie Novati
@piersonmarks hahaha I LOVE IT ❤️. I could debate this for hours. Here are sooome of my thoughts on the topic: 1. DS&A interviews are just a tool. If you try to screw a screw with a hammer, you'll think the hammer is a terrible tool, but the truth is that it is being used incorrectly – and I have LOADS of thoughts on ways people are executing them wrong. Doesn't mean they need to be thrown away completely. 2. DS&A is a better reflection of reality than people give it credit for. Tree structures are everywhere for example – the web DOM is just a tree, and iterating through and manipulating trees with ease IS an important on the job skill. Dynamic programming are often simplified caching problems as another example 3. DS&A is fair (with LOTS of caveats). A lot of more "practical" skills assessments can actually unfairly disadvantage people coming from backgrounds where they have worked with unusual tech stacks. Dynamic programming is a great example of a type of question that is likely a poor question for certain roles, but I think CAN be a good question for certain other roles, depending on the team and company's goals. This was really challenging to write a comment that wasn't 10x longer, but again, a debate topic I welcome and love! Cheers 🥂
Pierson Marks
@sophienovati wow I wasn’t expecting such a well thought out and worded response. Interviews (for all roles) are just super hard! Wishing you the best on this launch :)
Lukas Rüger
💡 Bright idea
This is so cool! Do you plan on building something similar for Product Managers? I'd highly appreciate that!
Nicole Rose Balsamo
@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!
Lukas Rüger
@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!
Sophie Novati
👋 Hello to the Product Hunt community! I’m Sophie, CEO at Formation, she / her / hers, engineer, restless thinker, leader, snowboarder, dog lover and one of the proud makers of TIRA. The job market has been tough, and there’s no of improvement anytime soon with thousands of layoffs just 3 weeks into this year. People from underrepresented backgrounds continue to be disproportionately hit. TIRA was born out of deep passion to equalize the playing field for engineers everywhere. Key features: * ⚙️ Dynamically generated test that adapts to the test taker’s skill level * 🌈 Covers all common topics included in most coding interviews * 🔍 Identifies the companies you’re ready to interview at (or not) * ⚖️ Optimizes your interview prep by identifying your most important skill gaps * 🤺 Provides personalized action items to improve your performance If you’re an engineer on the job hunt, preparing for a job hunt try it out 💪💪! It’s 100% free, takes only 45 minutes, and will immediately help you optimize your interview prep. I hope it is helpful to you. If not, we are hungry for your feedback! 💜💛 Thank you SO MUCH to Chris Messina for hunting us and to everyone for supporting this launch! Let’s all take one small step towards building a more diverse and inclusive tech industry. 🧡💙
Nicole Rose Balsamo
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!!!
Guillermo Gette
@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!
Nicole Rose Balsamo
@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!
Justin Schlitz
@nicole_rose_balsamo amazing, excited to see Formation continues to push the envelope here!
John Mendez
Hey all, John from Formation here! I’m super stoked to have helped build this product because it’s something I wish I had years ago! As a self-taught engineer, I often struggled to know where to place my focus and felt like I was “spinning my wheels” with studying. My hope is that this tool is useful for those who feel “rusty” with interview prep because, let’s be honest, it’s often an entirely different job just to get a job. This tool can be used to... 💡 Give us focus 👍 Validate that we know more than we thought ...or both. I’m super proud of the team for launching this free tool to give us a solid footing in this mad, mad, new world we find ourselves in.
Daniel Tomko
Hey all, Daniel from Formation here! In my experience as a technical interviewer over the last 20+ years and thousands of interviews, I’ve found many smart people perform poorly in interviews because they’re rusty on fundamentals. Some more junior engineers may not yet have the experience to have these things really polished. For some very senior engineers, their daily work may have become far removed. A well designed coding interview can expose these missing fundamentals. In building this new product, I was primarily responsible for the design of the questions. My team and I worked hard to create questions that exercise the kinds of fine-grain skills that strong coders utilize every day. You may find that many of the questions are not what you’d encounter in a real interview and that’s by design. While a single interview question requires a wide range of skills, here we’re asking *very narrow* questions so that we can best identify strengths and weaknesses... ...and therefore help you focus your interview prep based on the results!
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