Excellent
It simulates the actual online coding assessment from different companies, which helps alot in interview preparation
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What is CodeSignal?
CodeSignal is a technical skills assessment platform that enables companies to quickly hire qualified candidates for technical roles. With over 70 coding languages and tools and a built in plagiarism checker, companies can be confident that the candidates they select…
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What is CodeSignal?
CodeSignal is a technical interview solution. According to the vendor, companies of all sizes already use CodeSignal’s Pre-Screen and Interview products to tap into underrepresented pools of candidates, increase speed-to-hire, and increase candidate pipeline yield. Studies have shown that companies who use pre-hire screenings see turnover rates reduce by 39%.
CodeSignal uses technology to predict a candidate’s interview performance. CodeSignal’s predictive assessments go beyond testing only for data structures and algorithms, instead they dive deep into subject-specific assessments. Assessments on CodeSignal’s platform support 38+ programming languages, provides an advanced real-world coding environment, coding scores, and utilize a proprietary AI-powered plagiarism check.
Overview of CodeSignal Features
CodeSignal offers tests in 38+ programming languages in a real life coding environment. Per the vendor, their platform is a “flight simulator for developers” that allows candidates to utilize familiar tools to edit, run and debug their code.
CodeSignal offers keystroke playback and an automated plagiarism checker. The ability to play back the candidate’s keystrokes means that their work can be evaluated by multiple members of the hiring team without the hassle of everyone attending the assessment live. Their AI plagiarism checker searches for suspicious results, such as similarities in candidate responses.
CodeSignal’s assessments can assist companies looking to diversify their teams. Companies can replace a resume screen, and the unconscious bias it may bring, with a coding assessment. Using assessment scores allow them companies to evaluate candidates purely on skill rather than any other factor.
Coding Tests
CodeSignal divides different coding tests up into unit test frameworks that assess a person’s technical skills. Examples of unit test frameworks include:
NUnit for .NET Framework
xUnit or NUnit for .NET Core
JUnit for Java
Mocha/Chai for JavaScript
PHPUnit for PHP
unittest for Python
RSpec for Ruby
UI tests using Galen
UI functionality tests using Puppeteer
Assessments can be set to run in a specific language, or can be language agnostic so that the candidate can complete the test in their preferred language.
Testing job-specific skills allow for companies to pre-screen based on candidate skills and helps to improve the interview to hire ratio, since only qualified candidates will be offered interviews.
Coding Interviews
Companies can use CodeSignal for more than just their screening assessments, as the platform also allows for coding interviews and whiteboard sessions. CodeSignal’s coding interview options are suitable for in-person or virtual interviews. Companies can choose interview tasks from a pre-existing library, or can easily import custom tasks from GitHub.
Using CodeSignal’s interview tool, companies can see how candidates interact with the tools they will use every day on the job and make more informed hiring decisions. Team members can interact with the candidate to evaluate their approach to solving problems.
CodeSignal Features
- Supported: Plagiarism check
- Supported: Sharable results
- Supported: Dedicated customer success manager
- Supported: Custom APIs and webhooks
- Supported: SSO via SAML
- Supported: Premium task library
- Supported: Chrome extension
- Supported: Framework based analysis
- Supported: Predictive coding score
- Supported: Online proctoring
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CodeSignal Pre-Screen is a top-of-the-funnel assessment that is purpose-built to identify quality candidates in high-volume recruiting scenarios, such as university recruiting.
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| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
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CodeSignal is a technical skills assessment platform that enables companies to quickly hire qualified candidates for technical roles. With over 70 coding languages and tools and a built in plagiarism checker, companies can be confident that the candidates they select will be successful in their new roles.
Reviewers rate Usability and Support Rating highest, with a score of 9.
The most common users of CodeSignal are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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March 08, 2024
Excellent
Easy to use and just complete the function.
March 05, 2024
Getting a job with CodeSignal!
CodeSignal edges out HackerRank due to its intuitive interface,
real-world problem relevance, and robust assessment integrity. Its
modern, user-friendly design simplifies navigation and enhances learning
and testing experiences. The platform's challenges are closely aligned
with actual software engineering scenarios, making it an effective tool
for practical skill development and candidate evaluation. CodeSignal's
Certified Assessments, which include proctoring features, offer a
reliable measure of a developer's capabilities, ensuring fairness and
credibility in recruitment processes. Additionally, the flexibility in
test creation allows recruiters to tailor assessments to specific job
requirements, improving the match quality between candidates and roles.
The incorporation of gamification elements further engages users, making
the learning process more enjoyable and motivating. This combination of
features supports both educational growth for developers and efficient,
accurate talent acquisition for companies, making CodeSignal a
preferred choice for those looking to bridge learning with professional
application efficiently.
March 05, 2024
Good but will benefit from continued improvement
When compared to other similar services such as HackerRank and Leetcode, CodeSignal's main strength is the verification of candidates, and the ability for those candidates to complete one technical screen which can be submitted to many recruiters at once which improves the candidate experience and saves them time. However, when looking for general algorithm discussion, looking for problems assigned by specific companies, and looking for a wide variety of problems, other platforms such as Leetcode do it better. Furthermore, the solutions to coding problems in Leetcode are generally in-depth and help one learn.
I found CodeSignal's model for defining test cases to be more effective. Other products rely on console I/O which is very limiting, and adds complexity for candidates and interviews in parsing input and formatting output.
CodeSignal's interface of functions, with parameters and return types specific to each language, is much cleaner, easier to use, and more powerful.
CodeSignal's interface of functions, with parameters and return types specific to each language, is much cleaner, easier to use, and more powerful.
March 15, 2023
Relevant questions and instant evaluations
For me, the biggest difference between CodeSignal and other products is the questions set. The questions I was asked while using CodeSignal are way more related to what I would be doing on the job which I think is very important. It's annoying to do what basically amounts to a bad IQ test.
March 13, 2023
CodeSignal - All the right signals!
CodeSignal provides UI UX that is far more optimized than any other product on the market; the IDE itself has a multitude of options that aren’t available anywhere else. It functions as an end to end assessment system whereas the others are missing critical features that businesses require to make informed decisions.
March 07, 2023
Roblox assessment with codesignal
Codesignal and hacker rank are similar since they are both ways for employers to assess potential employees and applicants so they can understand who will be the best fit for the role, since they test coding abilities. I used code signal since Roblox required it and so I needed to complete the assessment as part of my application.
March 07, 2023
Great experience for Interviews.
I've only ever used Leetcode and CodeSignal. Leetcode is better for learning while CodeSignals is better for actual practice after you have learned the basics from Leetcode.
March 05, 2023
CodeSignals for University Labs.
I frankly really do not like remote desktop applications. They are slow and take a really long to join, ie have to find a computer and connect to VPN and among others. CodeSignal just works, which is why I prefer it.
March 05, 2023
Coding Made Easy...
CodeSignal's platform is the best in almost every aspect. It provides a nice user-friendly environment. The functionalities the environment provides are the best. It is a nice cheating-free platform that is very easy to understand and use. The scores provided are normalized and the range of scores provided is really easy to understand.
March 05, 2023
Cracking the Coding Challenge with CodeSignal.
Both CodeSignal and HackerRank are popular platforms that offer coding challenges, assessments, and interview preparation for developers. Here are some key differences between the two and why I selected CodeSignal: Focus on assessment: While both platforms offer coding challenges, CodeSignal places a stronger emphasis on the assessment and evaluation of developers' skills. CodeSignal provides a range of assessments that can be used by companies to evaluate candidates' coding skills and make hiring decisions. Adaptive testing: CodeSignal uses an adaptive testing algorithm that adjusts the difficulty level of questions based on the candidate's performance. This ensures that each candidate is evaluated fairly and accurately and allows companies to identify the most qualified candidates. User-friendly interface: CodeSignal has a user-friendly interface that is easy to navigate and provides clear instructions for each challenge. This makes it easier for developers to focus on coding and problem-solving rather than navigating the platform.
November 23, 2022
Users take on Codesignal
Codesignal stacks pretty well. The design of the product is clean and intuitive. I didn't choose Codesignal in particular. I'm only the user. I use it when companies send me coding tests on the platform. I think Codesignal is the best compared to these other platforms in design, but not necessarily content when it comes to the tests.
November 23, 2022
Satisfaction guaranteed
We are still considering CodeSignal and haven't truly migrated to this. HackerRank is still our preferred way of doing business due to its rich integration with our process. Additionally, its a familliar interface for most of our candidates hence CodeSignal still needs to go a long way ahead.
October 31, 2022
This is really helpful if you want to scale quickly.
Codesignal provides features like screen recording and monitors candidates while they take the assessments, thereby reducing the possibility of cheating during the assessment, which is a known problem with other providers like HackerRank. Codesignal also provides predictive coding scores, which helps to better assess the capabilities of the candidates.
October 27, 2022
Experience with Codesignal.
- HackerRank and Codility
Code signal is much simpler on the eyes and while using than these products. Far more expensive and would take much longer to reach ROI than CodeSignal.
October 23, 2022
CodeSignal : Some good, Some bad.
HackerRank is better as it's just one or at max, two questions when asked by companies, whereas code-signal asks for 4 questions in a limited time. It helps you to complete the question and consider all its edge cases instead of jumping around multiple questions. This frequent context switching does not happen in real life, so it should not be considered in the candidate assessment as well.
October 23, 2022
Codesignal helps us hire better.
October 23, 2022
Coding better , skills improving, CodeSignal
- HackerRank and Codility
I have selected code signal because it is easier to use and to evaluate my coding and my skills as well. Also, it improved my skills, and for my company, we use it to evaluate the candidates very extensively on the contrary of the other peers who don't offer like CodeSignal the variety of problems, or the scoring calculations to evaluate the candidates.
October 20, 2022
Code signal as an engineering user
I think codesignal has a more robust software set and tools than the competition I previously selected above. I believe that code signal is more comfortable for developers and gives them more tools to facilitate their assessment experience.
October 19, 2022
Awesome Product!!
- CodeSignal
Currently we use CodeSignal only for conducting screening rounds of the candidate.
September 30, 2022
Learn, practice, improve your skill and change your life
No other platforms I have used before
September 28, 2022
I got the job!
Not available
September 20, 2022
CodeSignal Review
The gamified approach used by CodeSignal makes the application very fun to use and also it feels rewarding which make problem-solving easier compared to other application. CodeSignal also makes you know how you are performing on the leaderboard. CodeSignal is very fun to use and learn to improve coding skills as a developer
September 20, 2022
My thoughts on CodeSignal
CodeSignal is better than HackerEarth and coderbyte due to its friendly UI and easy-to-use ability. In mostly every other term, I was dissatisfied with the editor issue during my online assessment. The line in which the error was shown by the compiler did not have any errors, and when I recompiled the code on hacker earth, it successfully compiled and gave the right output.
September 16, 2022
Great.
Code signal is better than HackerEarth in mostly every other term, but I was dissatisfied with the compiler issue during my online assessment. The line in which the error was shown by the compiler did not have any errors, and when I recompiled the code on hacker earth, it successfully compiled and gave the right output.