TIRA by Formation

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. 💪💪💪

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 :)

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

👋 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. 🧡💙

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!!!

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.

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!