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Andela and Qualified Join Forces

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

By Jake Hoffner|Mar 9, 2023|2 min read
Qualified

ATS Integration: Qualified + Recruitee

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

By Ellen Weaver|Feb 1, 2023|2 min read
Qualified

Announcement: Qualified now Integrates with Lever

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

By Ellen Weaver|Jan 12, 2023|3 min read
Work Culture

Why Dev Team Communication Matters During the Onboarding Process

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

By Tanhaz Kamaly|Oct 19, 2022
Hiring

The Developer Interview Process is Flawed

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.

By Ellen Weaver|Sep 29, 2022
Work Culture

Psychological Safety: The top indicator for effective teams

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.

By Ellen Weaver|Aug 24, 2022
Qualified

Q&A Challenge Refresher

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.

By Phil DeJarnett|May 18, 2022
Qualified

Interactive Pair Programming: Working Alongside Candidates & Students

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

By Phil DeJarnett|Apr 22, 2022
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Introducing Qualified Jobs

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!

By Paolo De Armas|Feb 10, 2022
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Introducing Qualified SmartIDE

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.

By Phil DeJarnett|Jan 31, 2022
Hiring

Reducing Time and Effort: Hiring Software Developers with Evidence Based Processes

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.

By Jake Hoffner|Nov 5, 2021
Qualified

Getting deeper insights with our Inspect Solution feature

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.

By Phil DeJarnett|Aug 2, 2021|2 min read
Qualified

New Major Release: New Stats, Insights, Challenge List, React Native and more!

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!

By Jake Hoffner|Jun 22, 2021|3 min read
Qualified

Introducing Qualified Reports

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

By Jake Hoffner|Jun 3, 2020|3 min read
Software Engineering

Colt Steele: What I've Learned Assessing 600,000+ Software Engineers

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.

By Geoff Roberts|Mar 27, 2020|1 min read
Hiring

5 Steps To Transition To Fully Remote Software Engineering Hiring

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.

By Geoff Roberts|Mar 23, 2020|6 min read
Hiring

The Science Behind Making Software Engineering Interviews Truly Predictive of Job Performance

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.

By Geoff Roberts|Mar 15, 2020|23 min read
Software Engineering

The Best Personal Software Engineering Blogs

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.

By Geoff Roberts|Jan 16, 2020
Hiring

Why Tech Companies Should Launch Corporate Software Engineering Blogs

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.

By Geoff Roberts|Dec 11, 2019
Qualified

Developers Can Now Complete Qualified Assessments In Their Own IDE

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.

By Jake Hoffner|Nov 21, 2019|3 min read
Qualified

Qualified's Dashboard Just Got A Facelift

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.

By Geoff Roberts|Nov 18, 2019|1 min read
Hiring

Dear VP of Engineering (An Open Letter From HR)

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.

By Geoff Roberts|Nov 14, 2019|5 min read
Hiring

The Qualified Manifesto On Hiring Software Developers

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

By Geoff Roberts|Oct 21, 2019|10 min read
Hiring

How To Hire Coding School Graduates

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

By Geoff Roberts|Sep 3, 2019|15 min read
Qualified

Introducing Project Code Challenges

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.

By Geoff Roberts|Aug 19, 2019|3 min read
Hiring

Andela Is Building Africa’s Tech Ecosystem—And Companies Like Microsoft Are Following Suit

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.

By Geoff Roberts|Jul 18, 2019|9 min read
Hiring

Why Some Developers Hate Coding Skills Tests (And What Hiring Managers Can Do To Change That)

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.

By Geoff Roberts|Jul 10, 2019|16 min read
Software Engineering

The Key to Becoming a Great Software Developer

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

By Phil DeJarnett|May 1, 2019|6 min read
Qualified

Reviewing is Everything: A tool that makes assessing candidates easier

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

By Jake Hoffner|Mar 4, 2019|2 min read
Hiring

The High Cost of Developer Mis-Hire

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.

By Jake Hoffner|Feb 25, 2019|3 min read
Hiring

First Impressions: Your Candidate Experience is Everything

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

By Nathan Doctor|Jan 14, 2019|3 min read
Qualified

Top Features & Improvements of 2018

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.

By Jake Hoffner|Jan 2, 2019|5 min read
Qualified

Beyond Code: How Qualified Builds Great Tools

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.

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A Small Trick to Assess a Developer’s Prior Knowledge: Timed Quiz Questions & Quizzes

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?”

By Jake Hoffner|Dec 6, 2018|3 min read
Qualified

How To Create An Effective Coding Challenge

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.

By Jake Hoffner|Jul 17, 2018|5 min read
Qualified

How To Build A Great Coding Assessment

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

By Jake Hoffner|Jul 12, 2018|4 min read
Qualified

What Is The Difference Between An Assessment And A Challenge?

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.

By Jake Hoffner|May 15, 2018|2 min read
Hiring

Hiring Software Developers Cheat Sheet

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

7 Traits To Look For When Hiring Software Developers

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?

By Jake Hoffner|Dec 12, 2017|5 min read
Hiring

Qualified Featured on Inc. — 4 Ways to Recruit Better Talent

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.

Qualified

Create coding assessments in multiple languages with the push of a button

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.

By Dan Nolan|Mar 15, 2017|6 min read
Software Engineering

Finding Flow as a Developer

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

By Dan Nolan|Feb 8, 2017|8 min read
Hiring

Tips for Assessing Awesome AngularJS Developers

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

By Phil DeJarnett|Nov 17, 2016|7 min read
Hiring

The Hidden Cost of Hiring Software Engineers—$22,750/hire

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.

By Nathan Doctor|Nov 3, 2016|6 min read
Software Engineering

Great Developers Don’t Need To Be “Passionate”

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

By Phil DeJarnett|Nov 2, 2016|5 min read
Hiring

Hiring Programmers Is Hard: How to be More Efficient

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.

By Jake Hoffner|Sep 12, 2016|7 min read
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