Beyond Technical Skills: Why Code Health Assessment Matters in Engineering Hiring

Code Health: A Hidden Challenge in Engineering Evaluation

Once you’ve optimized your technical assessment process, ensuring you’re accurately measuring coding, problem-solving, and collaboration skills, one challenge may remain: how best to distinguish between similarly skilled candidates. Ultimately, you want to choose the engineer who will more positively impact your team—and your codebase—long-term.

What makes the difference? Code health: how developers write clean, maintainable code that scales with your organization’s growth.

Introducing: Code Health Assessment by CodeScene

Codility has partnered with CodeScene, pioneers in behavioral code analysis, to bring a new dimension to our skill-based technical assessments. CodeScene’s research-based CodeHealth™ metrics reveal whether an engineer can write code that reduces, not creates, technical debt.

What Code Health Assessment Means for Your Engineering Team

By integrating CodeScene’s insights into Codility assessments, we’re enabling organizations to:

• Predict real-world performance: See how candidates’ coding practices translate to actual development environments
• Distinguish between similar candidates: When technical scores are close, code health reveals who writes sustainable, scalable solutions
• Build stronger teams: Identify developers who don’t just solve problems, but solve them in ways that benefit your entire engineering organization

Codility: The Complete Engineering Skills Assessment Platform

This partnership with CodeScene strengthens Codility’s position as the most comprehensive technical skills assessment platform, now offering:

• AI-ready skill assessments based on our Engineering Skills Model
• Structured technical interviews with standardized workflows
• Internal team skill mapping and development planning
• CodeHealth™ metrics through the new CodeScene integration

Ready to Elevate Your Engineering Assessment?

The future of engineering evaluation isn’t just about technical skills. It’s about building teams that create sustainable, scalable solutions. With CodeScene’s CodeHealth™ metrics for code health assessment now integrated into the Codility platform, you can make hiring and development decisions that align with the evolving demands of modern software development.

Want to learn more about how code health can transform your engineering assessment strategy? Book a Codility demo today.