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AI can build it. Can they own it?

Technical interviews for engineers who work with AI. Evaluate their decisions, inspect the evidence, and follow up on the tradeoffs that matter.

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Illustrative scenario

Illustrative interview · not a candidate result

Build a webhook delivery service

Keep deliveries tenant-isolated, retry safely, and explain what happens when delivery fails.

AI proposal

Retry failed requests.

Useful direction, but it leaves duplicate delivery and tenant boundaries unspecified.

Candidate decision

Scope idempotency to each tenant and event, bound every retry sequence, and expose delivery status instead of hiding uncertainty.

key = [tenantId, eventId]
maxAttempts = 5
status = 'pending'
What you are really hiring for

Working code is only the beginning.

A strong engineer connects implementation to consequences: who can access it, what happens under load, and how someone recovers when it fails.

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Beyond the happy path

Would you trust them to own this?

Use the work to guide the conversation. A polished demo is a starting point, not a hiring decision.

Questions worth asking

Security
Who can access another customer’s data?
Reliability
What happens when dependencies fail?
Usability
Can someone understand and recover from an error?
Candidate closeout

A better closeout for both sides.

After the hiring decision is recorded, your team can approve a private growth report with evidence-backed strengths and a practical next step.

Candidate can receive

Demonstrated strengths, growth areas, and an approved closing note

Company data stays private

Scores, rank, hiring outcome, reviewer notes, and integrity events

Candidate report

Maya Chen · Backend engineer

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Private candidate report

Your assessment summary

Reviewer approved

Demonstrated strength

You reproduced the failure before changing the implementation.

Growth focus

Compare cache invalidation strategies before accepting the patch.

Suggested next step

Write the test that would expose a stale read in an AI-generated data layer.

Hiring outcome is never included.
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Governance and trust

Evidence, not an automatic verdict.

Keep evaluation anchored to work evidence. DevEval makes the reviewable inputs explicit, avoids behavioral inference, and leaves the hiring decision with your team.

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Integrity event recorded

The assessment window lost focus three times. This may deserve a closer look, but it does not explain why it happened.

What should happen next?

Make the policy call to see how DevEval handles the event.

Your team can review

  • Code and executable test results
  • AI Critique decisions and reasoning
  • Available replay and task context
  • Integrity events as review prompts

DevEval does not score

  • Face, voice, or emotion scoring
  • Personality inference
  • Automatic cheating verdicts
  • Automatic hiring decisions

Integrity events are review prompts. They are not proof of misconduct or a standalone rejection reason.

Human decision required
Buyer evaluation kit

See what your hiring team receives.

Open the candidate task and recruiter report without creating an account. Then review the evaluation method and trust documentation on your own time.

Sample assessment · Recruiter review
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Maya Chen · Backend engineer

Review complete

One cache invalidation tradeoff is ready for live follow-up.

Decision score
100%
Questions
3 / 3
Duration
42m
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Candidate task

No signup required

Recruiter report

Demo data clearly labeled

Evaluation method

Measurement boundaries published

Hiring decision

Human review required

Buyer questions

Ask the hard questions.

A credible hiring product should be specific about fit, limits, and who remains accountable.

Can candidates use AI during a DevEval assessment?

Yes, when the screen is configured for AI use. The useful signal is what happens after generation: what the candidate trusts, what they challenge, how they verify, and whether they can explain the decision.

Does DevEval make an automatic hiring decision?

No. DevEval organizes work evidence, scoring context, reviewer notes, and follow-up prompts. Your hiring team remains responsible for advancing, rejecting, and communicating with candidates.

Why use bounded tasks instead of our entire repository?

Repository work can add depth for finalists. Earlier in the funnel, bounded tasks with known evaluation criteria are easier to compare and require less company context before a candidate can demonstrate judgment.

What does the hiring team actually receive?

A reviewable record containing the available task results, candidate decisions and reasoning, review outcomes, reviewer notes, and focused follow-up prompts. Replay and integrations depend on the selected workflow and plan.

Is Starter enough to evaluate DevEval for one hiring need?

Starter is designed for exactly that: one focused hiring need, 10 candidate sessions each month, one launch-ready work template, evidence packets, and candidate-safe shareback.

Your next open role

Make your next interview count.

Bring one role. We will map the screen, the evidence, and the live follow-up your team actually needs.

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