LiveRamp made more than 100 engineering hires from 7,000 applications

LiveRamp needed to screen thousands of engineering applicants without pulling its engineers into more interviews. Codility screens candidates early and runs its technical interviews online.

Headquartered in San Francisco, LiveRamp is a data connectivity platform. It helps companies and their partners connect, control and activate data to improve customer experiences.

Industry: Technology
Use case: Technical screening
Codility products: Screen, Interview

7,000+applications in one hiring year
1,000+Codility assessments
100+hires

Figures reported by LiveRamp for one hiring year.

The challenge

Hiring a developer takes longer and involves more people than most hires. LiveRamp wanted to screen thousands of applicants quickly, keep its engineers focused on building product and give every candidate the same fair process.

“Hiring a developer is usually a much longer and complicated process than hiring any other employee.”
Erika Thorson, Head of Global Talent Acquisition, LiveRamp

How LiveRamp uses Codility

Codility Screen helps LiveRamp assess candidates for technical roles early and move the strongest to the next interview round quickly. Fewer candidates reach the on-site stage, so engineers run fewer interviews.

“The use of Codility at LiveRamp definitely saves time. Less candidates will make it to the on-site stage, meaning less interviews need to be conducted. That turns into saving engineering time so that they can go out and write code.”
Erika Thorson, Head of Global Talent Acquisition, LiveRamp

When hiring moved online, LiveRamp moved its technical interviews to Codility Interview, where candidates and interviewers code together live. The whole recruiting process now runs online, and the candidate experience held up.

Video: LiveRamp’s Codility customer story.

The results

In one hiring year, LiveRamp received more than 7,000 applications, ran more than 1,000 Codility assessments and made more than 100 hires. Codility saved the team time, kept the candidate experience strong and gave every candidate the same process.

“Our candidates have a phone screen, they take the test, have an interview with a hiring manager and they’re done. As soon as we find the right person, we hire that person to increase our chances of getting the best talent on the market.”
Erika Thorson, Head of Global Talent Acquisition, LiveRamp

“Codility helps us remove bias by ensuring a consistent, equal, and fair process for every candidate at LiveRamp.”
Erika Thorson, Head of Global Talent Acquisition, LiveRamp