[iancmceachern]

This is an interesting idea, the one challenge is this is really only a small part of the interview. This covers the CAD skills part, but where is the industry specific knowledge part, communication skills, presentation skills. I can't emphasize enough a "hardware" engineer that has 10 years of experience designing surgical robotics and one that has spent 10 years designing catheters or sunglasses may be wildly different in their suitability for a given role. Both use Solidworks, onshape, etc to design hardware, but these things are not the same. How do you address this challenge?

[cporios]

We don't want to replace all interviewing. We won't test for culture fit, or presentation skills (although we can test for some industry-specific knowledge and communication skills). You can think of it as technical screening stage.

[iancmceachern]

That's what I was hoping to dig into. If I'm at a surgical robotics company interviewing for a hardware engineer to design a robot arm, I'm going to give a completely different technical portion of the interview than if I were at a catheter company doing the same, or at a sunglasses company, or dialysis, etc. You could perhaps handle it by having "vertical" specific interview templates. Just thinking through the challenges to adopting this in my workflow. I wish you all the best!