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Hiring, in production.

We’re building SourceWork: take-home exercises that run in production. Candidates get a real repo, a CI pipeline and live traffic to handle, and use AI as they would at work. Your rubric is applied to what they ship, so reviewers know where to look and what to ask at interview.

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submission #2231 · Senior Backend Engineer rate-limited-orders-api · burst 2k rps
ready for review

Scoring guidance per rubric criterion, with evidence.

+ Correctness under load 5 / 5
+ Resilience & retries 4 / 5
? Observability 3 / 5
− Test coverage 2 / 5
weighted guidance 3.7 / 5
✓ build 00:41 ✓ deploy ✓ load 2k rps ! p99 1.9s at 04:10

Spend valuable hiring time on the things that matter. Automate the rest.

WHAT WE’RE BUILDING

An exercise that behaves like the job.

Puzzles and whiteboards measure how someone interviews. Real work, under real conditions, shows how they engineer.

  1. 01

    Set the exercise

    Start from a library of production simulations that we write and maintain, or build your own with your traffic shape and failure modes.

  2. 02

    Candidates ship

    Each candidate gets a repo and a pipeline. Their code, in any language and written with the AI tools they use at work, deploys into a simulated environment and takes real requests.

  3. 03

    Review with signal

    Your rubric is applied to the code, the pipeline, and how the service held up. Reviewers get everything they need to make the right call, quickly, including questions to ask about the candidate’s own code.

BUILT FOR BOTH SIDES OF THE DESK

Better signal for teams. A fairer test for engineers.

FOR HIRING LEADERS

See how candidates build, deploy, and debug before you spend a minute in interview.

+ A library of exercises you don’t have to write or maintain
+ Ready to review as soon as a candidate ships, so you can move first
+ AI-assisted review against proven rubric
+ Interview questions drawn from what they built, so you hear them explain it
+ Create bespoke exercises and rubric
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FOR ENGINEERS

Show what you can do in a real environment, in the language you work in.

+ Challenges that look like the job, not a puzzle or abstract problem
+ Reuse your solutions to our problems across applications
+ Feedback on the work either way, not just a yes or no
+ Use AI the way you do at work; how you use it is part of the review
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Help us build it right.

We’re talking to hiring leaders and engineers before we ship. Five minutes of your experience decides what we build first.

+ Early access for your team or your next job search
+ The results report, emailed when the survey closes
− No sales call, no spam
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