What are the alternatives to outsourcing technical interviews?

Three, realistically. Codility Interview is the third one. Keep the service and accept the per-interview cost. Go back to ad hoc technical interviews on a video call and a shared document, which is cheap and leaves you nothing to review. Run the round on a platform your engineers already work in, which produces a rubric score, a transcript and playback from every session.

Our hiring managers still re-interview after the outsourced round. Is that normal?

Yes, and most teams treat it as a deliberate filter rather than a mistake. Worth asking whether the filter needs to be a separate paid round, when one structured session your own team runs can do both jobs. The hiring manager wasn't in the room. The report is a summary, not evidence. The questions came out of someone else's library.

Replace technical interview as a service

Your own engineers run the technical interview in a shared VS Code workspace, with a terminal and the Claude Code CLI. Codility Screen builds the shortlist, and every AI interaction in Screen and Interview is captured as reviewable AI activity.

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Interview session Live 24:06

Senior backend engineer

orders.py test_orders.py whiteboard

Files orders.py test_orders.py requirements.txt Participants you candidate

# throttle queued orders per region

def throttle(order_ids, limit=50):

queue = Queue(maxsize=limit)

for oid in order_ids:

queue.put(oid, timeout=0.5)

return drain(queue)

$ pip install pytest-timeout

$ pytest -q test_orders.py

11 passed, 1 failed in 3.41s

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Today’s failing approach: technical interview outsourcing followed by a second round

Buyers report $250 to $350 per outsourced technical interview, billed whether it ends in an offer or a rejection.
Your hiring manager wasn’t in the room, so they book their own session to be sure. Most teams now call that a filter and budget for both.
The vendor owns the questions. The session tests their library, not your stack.
Candidates meet a stranger, and senior engineers warn each other off the format in public.

That’s two paid conversations before anyone makes a decision.

Keep the structure, drop the middleman

Codility Interview is a shared VS Code workspace your own engineers run. The tasks come from Codility’s validated library, or you bring your own. Your team sets the rubric, and every session ends with rubric scores, a transcript, playback and reviewable AI activity.

Codility Screen takes the shortlisting, your engineers take the interview

Today you run three stages: your screen, the provider’s interview, then the hiring manager round that happens anyway.
Codility Screen takes over the shortlisting the provider’s round does today, using role-relevant engineering tasks.
Your engineers run the technical interview in Codility Interview, with the candidates on the Screen shortlist. Your team does not spend interview time on candidates who do not fit the role.
The separate outsourced round comes out of your process.

One session, one record, nothing left to schedule.

Task library Order throttling

Screen assessment

Order throttling

Python, 45 min, sent to 214 candidates

Stage 1

Interview session

Order throttling

Python, 60 min, live pair session

Stage 2

Shared rubric

Correctness4/5

Code quality4/5

Debugging3/5

Communication5/5

Shared workspace Both editing

Backend engineer

orders.py test_orders.py whiteboard

Whiteboard

api gateway | order queue | worker pool x4

Terminal

$ pip install pytest-timeout

installed in 1.8s

$ pytest -q

12 passed in 2.90s

$ python bench/throttle.py

p95 84ms, was 231ms

Your engineers interview where they work

The session runs in shared VS Code, with a terminal, package installs, autocomplete and the AI Copilot. Your engineers see the candidate work with AI, the way they would on the job.
Whiteboard and system design happen in the same window, so architecture and code are not split across two tools.
Your engineers run the session on tasks from Codility’s validated library or on their own, and score against one rubric your team sets.

You watch someone work on a Monday, and they meet the team they’d join.

The record is ready when the session ends

Rubric scores, a full transcript, step-by-step playback and the AI activity log are there the moment the interview finishes.
Nobody chases an engineer for a scorecard.
And when a hiring committee reopens the decision six months later, they can see how it was reached rather than take somebody’s word for it.

Feedback in minutes, evidence that survives an audit.

Session review 58 min, closed today

Rubric

Correctness

Code quality

Debugging

Communication

Recommend: hire

Playback

03:12Task opened

18:40Installed pytest-timeout, reran tests

27:05Queue rewritten after hint

41:22Asked the AI Assistant about backpressure AI activity

52:10System design on the whiteboard

Transcript, 6 412 words

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What changes when the round comes back in-house

	Technical interview as a service	Codility Interview
Cost model	Per interview, billed on passes and rejections alike	One volume commitment across Screen and Interview, credits returned for cancellations
Who writes the questions	The vendor’s standardized set	Your tasks, your rubric, your criteria
Who the candidate meets	A contract interviewer	The team they would join
Turnaround	Buyers report days	Rubric scores, transcript and playback at the end of the session
Where the method lives	With the vendor	With your engineering team

The left column is what buyers tell us about outsourced providers. Ask any vendor to confirm their own terms.

When technical interview as a service is still the better buy

Some teams should keep it. If your engineers truly can’t give up the hours, or you hire in two short bursts a year, or nobody internally will own the rubric, a vendor that supplies interviewers earns its money. Codility Interview is for teams who’d rather run the round themselves and want it structured and recorded when they do.

What candidates say when your own team runs it

87% rate their assessment experience good or excellent

Fairness stays above 83% across every demographic group measured

Candidates in the bottom quartile still rate the experience good or excellent 60% of the time

Codility post-assessment candidate feedback survey, 48,000+ responses, Oct 2025 to Apr 2026.

“Codility has streamlined how we evaluate technical roles at Trimble. Beyond a great product and its proctoring features, their customer success team is responsive and dedicated, offering deep-dive support and guidance every step of the way.”

Questions buyers ask

A vendor supplies trained interviewers who run your first-round technical interviews and sends back a scorecard with a recommendation. Most buyers keep it as a filter and run their own round afterward, which is where the second cost shows up.

Billed per interview, and buyers report $250 to $350 a session
The interviewer isn’t on your team and doesn’t use your tasks
The promise is engineering hours returned

Bring one open role and run the round on it

Your task, your rubric, your engineers. See what a session leaves behind before you renew anything.

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