Asseco hired 23 of its 24 interns into full-time roles_

The challenge

Asseco Starter, launched in 2016, is Asseco’s internship program for talented students and graduates of technical colleges. The best candidates accept other offers within 7 days, so the recruitment team has to act fast.

The team wanted a screening process that measured technical skills accurately, treated every candidate the same and checked for plagiarism, while keeping the candidate experience high.

How Asseco uses Codility

Applications for Asseco Starter open each spring. Every candidate completes a take-home assessment in Codility Screen that tests their coding skills in languages such as Java, SQL, C++, .NET and C#.

Anna Paruch and her team choose tasks from Codility’s library in different languages and technologies, so engineers no longer prepare or check tests by hand.

“We can easily choose the tasks we need without engaging our hiring managers’ time.”

Anna Paruch, HR Specialist, Asseco

When a take-home result raises a question about who did the work, Codility flags possible plagiarism for the team to review, and the team decides each case individually.

After screening, the chosen candidates have a phone interview with a recruiter and a final interview with the hiring manager.

“Codility is the most important element of our selection process. It allows us to screen hundreds of candidates and pick the most talented ones, based on their technical skills.”

Anna Paruch, HR Specialist, Asseco

The results

In 2020, Asseco received more than 1,600 internship applications and used Codility to narrow them to the 24 strongest candidates. 23 of the 24 interns moved into full-time roles when the internship ended.

By the time of this story, Asseco had run more than 3,600 Codility assessments for the program, and more than 70% of the interns it had hired since 2016 still worked at the company.