CodeInterview Reviews & Product Details

As someone in talent acquisition who supports many different engineering divisions that work fast and furious- the ease of using CodeInterview is greatly appreciated. I appreciate that I can set up and monitor code sharing session on demand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is nothing I dislike abt CodeInterview ( and I always have something I dislike about SaaS apps). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its a simple product to use and I like the UI/UX of CodeInterview. It is very easy to create shareable interview sessions. The process of inviting people to the live session is also very easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I feel its still in nacent stage in terms of features. One problem that I faced was that the compiler was slow some times.

Apart from that few of the Java libraries could not be imported in it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The thing I like most about CodeInterview is the straightforward UI. It is trivially easy to create and update templates, easy to create a new interview, easy to invite people into the interview, and easy to navigate the various features once in the interview. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I've only observed two drawbacks to CodeInterview: the latency and the lack of color in the terminal output. The latency is the biggest drawback and can make it challenging for both candidates and interviewers to add and edit code. The lack of color in the terminal output makes it particularly difficult to disambiguate data, errors and debug output. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It was an ok code platform to conduct an interview. Overall it was efficient and worked for the use of my interview. I could do what I had to, and coding was overall a painless experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There were missing aesthetic elements on the UI and interview panel that I believed should exist on a modern platform, and moving the GUI panels felt clunky and outdated. A button that could switch to sole interview mode before the coding section could make the website feel more friendly and be a valuable feature for coding interviews during chatting times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CodeInterview is a fast and responsive service; it was easy to follow whatever candidates were coding.

It supports several most popular programming languages that can be used simultaneously.

The section with task description and the section for interviewer's notes is also very helpful.

The final result can be easily shared with other reviewers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I liked the Whiteboard feature, and it's useful for some initial design discussions. However, I was surprised to find that the whiteboard was emptied when the interview is completed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its sharing capabilities. It is very easy to invite multiple people and pair programs as well.

The hidden comment feature is also really useful for later references Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The compiler needs a little bit of work. Not all libraries are present and event simple of data structures are missing. Themes can be worked upon and improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The questions are very similar to what I saw during a real interview. They are of high quality and very helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The fact that it doesn't have a lot of free questions to prove the people who visit it for the first time that it's actually worth it to buy the membership. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The templating system is fantastic. I got a lot of value from it by creating a problem for our candidates in multiple programming languages. Switching between languages for the same prompt made the interview process smooth.

Each candidate I interacted with had no issue using the UI to write and run their code. Additionally, having a Markdown file for the description makes communicating the problem's details easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- The UI feature, which highlights where the user is to click (a small grey dot), is quite annoying. I've used the product before and therefore don't need the "how to use the UI" prompt each time I run an interview.

- The way the above feature was displayed on Firefox was a bit wonky and required some trial and error to click it away.

- The lack of importing 3rd party extensions is a bit of a drag. In one specific case, not having access to Jackson's data-bind library while dealing with JSON de-serialization proved to be a bit of a headache as the natural javax way of doing it is a bit arcane. Given the industry ubiquity of something like Jackson, having it available to interview with would be great.

- Why is the output for programs always in red? Is this because it's outputting with STDERR? I would strongly suggest making it something more readable. The UI's text output was challenging to read in places. My coding prompt involved the candidate reading the text output and working through problems, so this was a bit of a drag, given how hard to read the font and color were.

- Why do I have to name a Java class a specific magic word (`MyCode`)? You should be able to call the class whatever you need, so long as it has a `public static main` method.

- I believe the Run button should be made more prominent and perhaps put up top instead of down on the bottom. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CodeInterview is very intuitive for both the interviewers and the candidates.

Interviewers:

- Easy to start/end an interview

- Easy to save and review ended interviews

- We can make, share and load code templates

Candidates:

- Write on the left, run and see the results on the right (nothing else, no distractions needed so the focus remains on the exercise) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As a Data Engineer, I miss more SQL engines available. In my team, we use PostreSQL and would love to test PL/pgSQL and other features that differ from MySQL (data types casting, functions, etc.). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.