We're excited to announce that Andela and Qualified are joining forces!

Qualified now offers an ATS integration with the modern hiring software, Recruitee.

Qualified now integrates with Lever for a more streamlined hiring process.

Increase employee retention and job satisfaction by starting out on the right foot. Is your developer onboarding process a positive experience for all?

Bias against interview anxiety is harmful in more ways than one. Creating a comfortable space for interviewees and checking your judgement at the door pays dividends.

Psychological safety: it's more than just a buzzword. Research cuts through the seemingly glib corporate speak to reveal what your team might actually be missing.

We've recently introduced some new features to our already highly customizable Question & Answer challenges, and we thought it might be a great time to reintroduce Q&A challenges and highlight some of the great ways you can use them to assess candidates and students.

Use interactive pair-programming to learn more about candidates and provide one-on-one support for students.

We are excited to announce Qualified Jobs, our new job board with deep integration into our Codewars community. With access to over 3 million developers, Qualified is in a unique position to help developers find their dream job, and for companies to reach their growth objectives with highly qualified talent!

Introducing SmartIDE! Our new enhanced code editing experience. We've taken our existing easy-to-use, web-based IDE, and added in intelligent, useful development tools to improve you and your candidate's code editing experience in a massive way. Advanced IDE features such as auto complete are now possible through our fully web-based experience.

Hiring a good software developer can be a major undertaking. Figuring out who to hire, how to interview them, and what questions to ask takes time and effort. In this article we'll cover some evidence based hiring techniques that will help reduce the time and effort spent on hiring while at the same time improving the efficacy of the process.

Have you ever been reviewing candidate or student code, and wanted to get a deeper look into why their code was failing? With our new Inspect Solution feature, you can easily do just that.

We recently released a number of new features and improvements that we are excited to tell you about. These include some great productivity improvements, new evidence data to help improve your evaluation process, and React Native support!

Qualified’s new reporting functionality allows you to create custom reports rich with insights into the performance and effectiveness of your assessment content.

Colt Steele is a software engineer and educator that's built development curriculum for companies like Udemy, Springboard, Galvanize, and Udacity. We caught up with Colt to discuss what he's learned about teaching coding to 600,000+ software engineers.

At Qualified, our team has always been 100% remote. That means we’ve hired our entire engineering team remotely and have always considered the remote experience when building our developer assessment platform. This post provides straightforward guidance on how you can take your old on-site hiring process and adapt it for the remote first world.

There is a plethora of data and research available that outlines exactly how companies can build a hiring process for software engineers that's truly predictive of their future, on-the-job performance. Yet, the tech industry at large has all but ignored these practices opting instead for antiquated hiring processes with low preditive validity.

This list of personal software engineering blogs represents the best of the best. Whether you’re stuck writing a particularly challenging bit of code or are simply looking for some inspiration from your peers, these blogs are worth having on your radar.

The idea of technology companies launching their own software engineering blogs is far from new, but the vast majority of companies who head down this path do so for ill-informed reasons.

If we were interviewing for a job we’d want to complete coding assessments or projects using our own integrated development environment (IDE). Time to put our money where our mouth is… that’s why we’re so excited to announce our newest feature.

When you login to your Qualified account you may notice that things look a bit different. We redesigned Qualified’s primary dashboard, and it packs a bit of a punch.

It’s me again… your Director of Talent Acquisition. Our conversations lately have been a bit tense, so I wanted to reach out and extend the proverbial olive branch. I think we can both agree that we’re not overflowing with qualified candidates for our open development positions.

The philosophy, ideals, and behaviors that guide everything from our product strategy to our own processes for hiring software engineers.

A step-by-step playbook to successfully hire coding school graduates and set them up for success within your engineering team.

Our latest product update is our biggest strike yet in our war against synthetic coding challenges that test only algorithmic skills.

Learn how Project Code Challenges can help your company better assess front-end development skills as well as candidates for mid to senior level engineering roles.

Andela is working to build technology ecosystems throughout Africa—a challenge that starts with processing over 130,000 applications from aspiring software engineers. When it comes to assessing the programming ability of a continent, Andela has turned to Qualfied's developer assessment platform.

Not all software engineers appreciate coding skills tests—and with good reason. But if wielded intelligently coding assessments actually represent an opportunity to build your employer brand, build credibility, and give candidates a flavor of the culture they'll encounter within your engineering team.

Progressing through the skills needed in software development can be grueling. Use this profoundly simple insight to level up your skills.

Check out five of our favorite features that allow you to conduct an in-depth code reviews within Qualified.

We ran the numbers, and the cost of landing a new developer will set a company back roughly $22,750 — dive into the numbers with us and figure out why.

For tech organizations, recruiting talented engineers is a time-consuming and often challenging process that can directly impact company goals and the bottom line.

As we at Qualified look forward towards what's to come for 2019, we wanted to share our top 10 favorite features and improvements of 2018.

As one of the leading software tools to use for hiring technical talent, we can’t help but want to talk about what it’s like to be on our team.

How do you assess the prior knowledge of a candidate? You know, the type of knowledge they should have without researching the answer. We typically resort to creating general quizzes, but when the submissions roll in, sometimes we can’t help but think — “Did they research this?”

In this guide, we’ll explore general concepts, goals, and tips for creating challenges for the Qualified Candidate Assess system. If you do not know what an Assessment is or how to build one be sure to read over our prior Product Blog Posts.

In this guide, we'll explore general concepts, goals, and tips for outlining a great assessment for any Qualified Candidate.

At the core of our Product, there is the ability to assess a candidates skill. The way that we do this is through the creation of assessments and challenges. This is how we define, structure, and have them work together.

Now is the best time ever to be a software developer. Check out this cheat sheet to help you identify the best of the best.

Hiring the right engineer for the job is critical to a company's success. So, how can we ensure that we are finding the perfect person for the position?

Inc. explores how companies are evolving their hiring process for greater effectiveness. In their article, CEO of Qualified, Nathan Doctor, articulates the importance of testing real-world ability.

Unit test-driven code challenges are powerful and effective, although they need to be translated across programming languages. Now you can create custom challenges and generate multi-language support automatically — introducing the Language Generator.

Software development is hard. Check out these tips for maximizing productivity while also preventing burn-out.

Looking for these skills will help you select developers with real-world AngularJS experience.

The true, hidden cost of hiring - your engineers' time - reduces your company's ability to innovate and could be costing you $22,750 of enterprise value per hire.

Great developers have something better than a desire to work long hours.

Hiring software developers is one of the most important aspects of building a successful business. It's a general truth that a great programmer can be 10 times more productive than a mediocre one.