Codility
About Codility
Codility is a remote hiring platform for engineering teams. They use our platform to predict the real-life skills of their technical candidates at all stages of the hiring process, via unbiased and relevant assessments on CodeCheck, live technical interviews on CodeLive, and virtual recruitment events with CodeEvent - all remotely and at scale. This brings faster hiring, time savings, and gives engineers more time to solve problems that matter.
World-class tech hiring teams at companies like Slack, Tesla and Unity choose Codility to:
· Screen candidates remotely with online code tests
· Host virtual tech interviews with our shared editor
· Accelerate time-to-hire by identifying top candidates faster
· Reduce unconscious bias and increase objectivity to support diversity
· Arm hiring managers with high-quality insights into their candidates’ skills
· Minimize false negatives and false positives with fair, reliable, and unbiased scoring
Since 2009, engineering hiring teams have been using Codility to attract, screen and interview candidates based on their real-life engineering and fundamental programming skills. The Codility assessment engine provides a clear signal as to which candidates are the most promising to advance based on technical skill. Hiring managers can use Codility to run remote live coding sessions with their candidates, all recorded and shareable directly via API or direct integration with your applicant tracking system.
Screen candidates accurately with CodeCheck
Design role-specific remote skills assessments to screen candidates before moving them to the interview stage.
Run better remote interviews with CodeLive
Give your candidate a virtual whiteboard marker and discuss problems together via our shared editor using a range of technologies and problems.
Hire at scale with CodeEvent
Assess thousands of candidates at a time via technical recruiting events and find the best talent faster
Empower your hiring managers with Codility for Employees
Map the skills of your existing engineering teams and identify areas for L&D.
Key benefits of Codility
Validate skills quickly online
Our take-home coding assessments give you an accurate, objective measure of every potential employee's skills while providing a great candidate experience.
Run remote interviews face-to-face
Move faster to build relationships with the best candidates by interviewing them live in a shared code editor.
Meet students and grads where they are — online
Maximize your impact at events by using online coding competitions to drive excitement and connect with prospective candidates.
Prevent plagiarism at scale
Our intelligent plagiarism prevention and protection protocols - from web crawlers to similarity checkers - provide accurate screening for you, without damaging the candidate experience.
Mitigate unconscious bias
Our accurate, accessible, and fair code tests and structured interviews actively mitigate bias, giving hiring managers confidence that the processes they run are equal and fair.
Accelerate time-to-hire
Our efficient workflows and insights minimize false positives and reduce the interview time per hire to give you a 2.5x faster time-to-capacity.
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- Industry: Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Monthly for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
A great developer assessment tool
Reviewed on 2023/01/09
Codility has helped me improve my skills as a developer and as an employer, I use Codility to...
Codility has helped me improve my skills as a developer and as an employer, I use Codility to frequently keep my staff sharp on the job by frequently testing their capabilities.
Pros
I have used Codility as a developer as well as an employer and I can tell you that it is a great assesment tool. One of Codility's key advantages is that it enables employers to quickly and effectively assess the coding abilities of numerous job applicants. Candidates can work at their own pace through the online coding tasks on the user-friendly website.As a developer, I use Codility to assess my coding abilities and learn new programming paradigms in the process.
Cons
Some of the things which I would like them to work on is an offline mode. The complete dependence on the internet may limit some users from enjoying its features. They should also make it such that tests are optionally timed, many times, developers are not able to complete the tasks within the short timeframe.
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Codility’s Strengths and Areas for Improvement
Reviewed on 2024/10/20
Codility helps bridge the challenge of assessing coding skills on objective and efficient grounds....
Codility helps bridge the challenge of assessing coding skills on objective and efficient grounds. For me, it's like a mentor, which initiates you to first of all think as a software engineer would, maximize your codes, and be considerate of the edge cases in real-world conditions. Providing problems that are similar to those you might encounter in a job interview or while trying to solve especially complex coding problems on the job makes the process of preparing for technical interviews much easier.
Pros
I recently attempted Codility. Honestly, I would say it was some mix of both challenge and insight. The platform is quite well designed with a smooth interface to coding, clear problem statements, and real-time feedback about performance.
Cons
Probably, one of the issues with Codility is that the tests can sometimes appear a little too edged on the edge cases. I think it might be frustrating for developers more accustomed to solving practical, everyday problems. In some cases, very severe time limitations and scoring systems really add unnecessary stress on candidates. Instead of exploring creative solutions, candidates focus more on trying to get a qualifying score.
- Industry: Banking
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Monthly for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 2.0 /10
Not an adequate test for most engineering roles.
Reviewed on 2020/05/29
If you use it, I would suggest the live-code feature where you screenshare and watch the applicant...
If you use it, I would suggest the live-code feature where you screenshare and watch the applicant solve one larger problem, preferably one that relates to the job at hand rather than a mensa puzzle.
Make sure to review the failing submissions because in many cases, they had it right, but the machine graded them wrong, this could be for many reasons including the structure of the training set they were given was different from that of the testing data.
Over half of what our engineers do is debug, interpret existing code, and build infrastructure. None of these things are tested with Codility. If they do pass, they are proficient in at least one element of the job, but not necessarily the rest.
I interview any applicant who passes with 30% and always look at their code even if it failed.
Pros
It is deployable and easier for HR who don't understand code themselves.
The ability to compare to other programmers' skills is nifty.
Cons
Many of the problems are not completely presented (I.E. there are other factors that are not mentioned which would influence the code, so applicants who submit overly-thorough code will actually fail because the machine didn't like their answer.. it is a guessing game)
20 minute time limits to solve an algorithm problem are NEVER the case in real life.
Programmers do not work off memory, they work off documentation-- codility does not test on use of frameworks or libraries, only math concepts.
The IDE is limited, will delete the applicant's code if they switch languages momentarily.
Reasons for Switching to Codility
Pricing, ease of use.Response from Codility
Dear Mark, thank you very much for your feedback!
We are sorry to hear that your experience with Codility didn't meet your expectations. We'll strive to do better in the future!
Algorithmic tasks are only a small part of our task library. We also offer a lot of real-life tasks, including the ones where candidates need to fix the bugs in existing code or rewrite the code to improve the application performance. Moreover, our Partnered Tasks service allows you to add your own real-life tasks to our platform.
If you're interested in learning more about all sorts of tasks we offer to our customers, please reach out to [email protected]. We'd also be happy to hear more about what kind of tasks or technologies are missing in our library, so we can add them ASAP.
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- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Monthly for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10
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Reviewed on 2022/08/08
First time I used Codility 8-9 month ago in my interview. It was Microsoft interview. Scince that...
First time I used Codility 8-9 month ago in my interview. It was Microsoft interview. Scince that time I some times I join Codility and interested Codility questions.
Pros
It's easy of use and I can reach evey old questions easily because questions listed near by near. And I can connect to start time for taking my test again if time is already expired. And resolving time period for every test questions is long, in 1-2 month every body can connect and resolve problem and earn certificate for every resolving problems.
Cons
For every problems I trying use my computer idea before adding my code to Codility because it apsent idea feature, ex. autocomplete. And I do my test cases by myself(It's a bit takes time ) in my idea. I would like Codility before give the several tests cases which users can copy to add their idea.
- Industry: Banking
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Codility does the hard work for the recruiting team
Reviewed on 2022/11/07
Pros
Codility offers a lot of features that can help it's users for developing their recruitment system faster. Codility is also a great tool for the job seeker as they can practice the latest interview skills here.
Cons
I didn't find any disadvantages related to this one.
Codility FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Codility.Q. What type of pricing plans does Codility offer?
Codility offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: US$5,000.00/year
- Pricing model: Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
Contact Codility for pricing information.
Q. Who are the typical users of Codility?
Codility has the following typical customers:
51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Codility support?
Codility supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does Codility support mobile devices?
Codility supports the following devices:
Q. What other apps does Codility integrate with?
Codility integrates with the following applications:
Freshteam, GoodTime Hire, Google Calendar, Greenhouse, Jobvite, Lever, Manatal, Microsoft Outlook, Naukri RMS, Oracle Taleo Cloud, Pinpoint, Recruitee, Slack, SmartRecruiters, Softgarden, Teamtailor, Workable, Workday HCM, iCIMS Talent Cloud
Q. What level of support does Codility offer?
Codility offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat
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