1. The best way to hire programmers

2. Section-I: Screening Programmers

3. Recruit
Problem:
Companies spend a lot of time in phone interviews. On an average a company
rejects 7 out of the 10 developers interviewed in phone interview stage. This
translates to 70 hours of engineering team that’s being wasted

4. Recruit
Problem:
Companies spend a lot of time in phone interviews. On an average a company
rejects 7 out of the 10 developers interviewed in phone interview stage. This
translates to 70 hours of engineering team that’s being wasted
Solution:
The ideal way is to find a solution to automate phone interviews that produces
the same or better results

5. Recruit
Problem:
Companies spend a lot of time in phone interviews. On an average a company
rejects 7 out of the 10 developers interviewed in phone interview stage. This
translates to 70 hours of engineering team that’s being wasted
Solution:
The ideal way is to find a solution to automate phone interviews that produces
the same or better results
interviewstreet.com/recruit

6. Recruit
What does Recruit do?
The product Recruit from interviewstreet helps companies screen candidates by
inviting them to a programming test created by them. We have an in-built
codechecker that evaluates a candidate’s code for correctness and optimality and
categorizes them into ‘Extraordinary’ candidates, ‘Above average’ candidates, etc.
This makes it very easy for companies to pick the candidates for interview.
What all languages does Recruit support?
All major languages – C, C++, Java, Python, Ruby, Scala, Clojure, Haskell, C#, SQL
Can I add my own programming questions?
Yes. You’re free to use our library questions as well.

7. Recruit
Is it completely automated?
The results are generated instantly once the candidate completes a test and
you can proceed with the interviews immediately
Who are your users?
Our product is used by large MNC’s like Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Zynga, etc.
to SME’s like Flipkart, Cleartrip and also young startups like Drchrono
How much does it cost to use the product?
The product is on a pay-per-attempt model. Every test attempt costs $5
What’s your ROI?
On an average we save about 50 developer hours for every hire made.
Case studies with Cleartrip, Flipkart can be found on our blog

8. Section-II: Powering Careers page

9. Powering careers pages
Careers/Jobs pages of companies are generally not paid attention to and just
contains an email address asking candidates to send their resumes.
What if you had an interesting programming challenge
on your careers page?

10. Powering careers pages
Facebook Amazon
Skype
And many more…

11. Powering careers pages
Result:
Companies love the programming challenges and this acts as an additional source
of filtered programming leads from their careers page – double bonus!

12. Section-III: CodeSprint

13. CodeSprints
CodeSprints are programming contests that we hold every weekend. We invite
companies to endorse a CodeSprint if they’re interested. At the end of the contest,
the company can interact with the participants and hire programmers

14. CodeSprints
What does it take for a company to endorse a CodeSprint?
The company that’s endorsing a CodeSprint should be able to contribute at least
one programming problem to the contest. This not only acts as an advertising
vehicle for the company but also engages programmers to get a peak at the real-
world problems. It generally lasts between 5-8 hours
How much does it cost to endorse a CodeSprint?
We work with companies with two business models:
a. Pay-per-hire: This is a pay-per-hire model where the company pays us $10k
USD for every programmer hired through the contest. If the company
doesn’t hire anyone, they don’t pay us anything
b. Flat fee: This is an enterprise model where the company pays us $50K USD
for conducting a CodeSprint. You can hire as many programmers you want

15. CodeSprints
What are some of the past CodeSprints you’ve conducted?
We’ve conducted a lot of CodeSprints endorsed by companies in the past:
1. Quora (quora.interviewstreet.com)
2. Amazon (codeninja.interviewstreet.com)
3. Adobe (adobe.interviewstreet.com)
4. Sequoia Capital VC firm (sequoia.interviewstreet.com)
and many more..
What has been the success rate of such CodeSprints?
People all across the globe participate and it’s an easy one-stop access for
companies to pick the top talent across the globe. We’ve noticed companies
hiring a lot of engineers in just a 5-hour programming contest.

16. CodeSprints
How many programmers participate in a CodeSprint?
This varies week over week. But the average has been 550+ programmers with
the maximum being 2104 programmers
How do you advertise a CodeSprint?
We’ve daily challenges put up on our site which attract a lot of programmers who
solve daily. There are roughly 400-500 programmers who spend more than 90 min
on our site every day. We’ve a good base of programmers to advertise
Has there been any successful hires via CodeSprint?
http://www.quora.com/Programming-Contests/Where-have-the-participants-
of-the-different-Codesprints-ended-up
Of course, else we wouldn’t have such a demand 

17. CodeSprints
Do you’ve any tie-ups with universities?
Yes, we recently conducted a collaborative campus challenge for the top schools
in the US. We had over 400 university school students participating in it and
Princeton University held the first rank.
Leaderboard: https://campus.interviewstreet.com/challenges/dashboard/#universityleaderboard
What kind of problems does CodeSprint support?
We support programming questions, approximate algorithm problems, game
theory programming problems, real-world app creation problems, mobile
app building problems and more being added
Trivia: We’re working with the White house on a CodeSprint (yes you read that
right ) - www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/04/02/announcing-summer-jobs-code-sprint

18. Press
http://www.forbes.com/sites/nicoleperlroth/2011/08/25/yc-
combinator-start-ups-guess-which-will-be-worth-a-billion/
http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/23/interview-street-
codesprints/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15814537

19. Thank you dear customers. We value you the most.
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