[tchaffee]

This takes some of things I dislike about the usual hiring process and amplifies them.

Unless I was desperate for work, I would refuse to participate in this type "interview" process as a candidate. Nor would I use it to hire people. There are some things that need a human touch. I want to get to know the people I will be spending a significant amount of my daily time with. I want to give them every possible opportunity to succeed at the interview and I actively try to help them at it.

I just recently finished an interview where the person interviewing me did just that.

He gave me a big hint at solving a problem he asked me to talk through as I was coding. Did I ever feel stupid because when he gave me that hint I realized that anyone at my level should have immediately reached for that method. But for whatever reason, perhaps nerves, it just didn't occur to me at the moment. It was good coding together like that and talking through the code. I got to know a little what it would be like working with him, and he got to understand a little bit about how I think while writing code. I got the job.

[petrovicstefan]

I think this app is meant to lessen the load on the hiring process in a way that will help a company get a list of people that have at least the base required knowledge for the job, before calling them up for traditional interviews. Imagine a company getting 300+ job applications, someone needs to go through the CVs and pick people to call on the interviews, and even then a good chunk of those people simply don't have even the base knowledge (at least in my experience, the CV can lie a lot), also some of the people that actually do show promise will be discarded simply because someone didn't want to bother with their CV (this happens a lot as well). I think this is meant to replace that "weeding out" process so that companies get people they can call for an in-person interview (lowering the time and cost for the first stage of the interview process ) while people that have the base required (required by the company) knowledge, do get a shot at the job.

[tchaffee]

That's not what their offering claims: "You won't waste your resources on time-consuming interviews, ever again."

Also, you don't need to carefully go through 300+ job applications to find a suitable candidate for a position. If that's part of your hiring process, fix that first.

And while this app might be meant to reduce the cost a company spends on the hiring process, they are doing it at the expense of the person applying for the job who now has to invest more time. Sorry, but I don't want to work for a company that sees me only as an expense and / or as a source of profit. Spend the money to meet me as a human. Want to do an initial phone call for a quick screening to make sure my CV isn't a lie? No problem. But if you want to automate that away to an app, some folks are going to take a pass. And I would suspect the ones taking a pass are the top talent who are in demand and can pick and choose who they get to work for.