Coding interview platform with AI follow-ups
DeveloperHiring is a coding interview platform that interviews every candidate on their own code. An AI interviewer asks follow-up questions about the candidate's test solution, records a transcript and scores a rubric, and your team can run live coding sessions in a shared editor.
Why interview on the candidate's own code?
Generic interview questions can be memorized, and today they can be answered by AI tools in seconds. Questions about a solution the candidate just wrote cannot. Why did you choose this structure? What breaks with ten times the traffic? Which failing test would you fix first?
Real understanding shows quickly. Copied work shows too. That is why the interview comes right after the coding assessment.
AI interviewer
Your rate limiter stores hits in memory. What happens when the service runs on three instances?
Candidate
Each instance would count separately, so a customer could send three times the limit. I would move the counter to a shared store with an expiry.
AI interviewer
Two of your tests failed on the window reset. Walk me through what you would change.
Rubric
How does the AI technical interview work?
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Step 1
Disclosure first
The candidate sees that an AI runs the interview, what it scores and how to ask for a human review, before the first question.
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Step 2
Questions from the code
The interviewer reads the submission and test results, then asks about design choices, failures and scaling.
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Step 3
Follow-ups that adapt
Short or vague answers get a follow-up. Strong answers move on to harder ground.
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Step 4
Transcript and rubric
Your team gets the full transcript and a score per rubric item, with quotes that support each score.
AI interview or live coding interview?
Use both. The AI interview checks depth for every candidate at the same bar. The live room is for the few people your team wants to work with directly.
| AI technical interview | Live coding room | |
|---|---|---|
| Who runs it | AI interviewer, asynchronous | Your engineers, in real time |
| When to use | Every candidate who passed the test | The shortlist |
| Team time | None until review | 30 to 60 minutes per candidate |
| Output | Transcript and rubric score | Shared code, notes and your scorecard |
| Plans | 15, 60 or 200 per month | Team and Scale |
What does the rubric measure?
The rubric is the same for every candidate of a role, and you can edit it. Default items are:
- Understanding of own code. Can they explain what they wrote and why?
- Debugging. Can they find the cause of a failing test?
- Trade-offs. Do they see costs of a choice, not only benefits?
- Scaling and failure. What happens under load, with bad input or a down dependency?
- Communication. Are the answers clear to another engineer?
Candidates can read how the rubric works on our page for candidates.
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