From staff engineers to VPs of Product, tech hiring lives or dies on real ability.
From staff engineers to VPs of Product, tech hiring lives or dies on real ability. Prelim measures how candidates actually build, lead, and go to market — not how well they interview.
Engineering culture runs on trust in your process.
Tech and SaaS companies compete for the same small pool of strong engineers and product leaders, and a slow or inconsistent hiring process is the fastest way to lose them to a competitor. Prelim gives you a rigor bar that scales from your first ten engineers to your thousandth — live coding for backend, frontend, and data/infra depth, and situational judgment for the leaders who'll scale your org.
- Live coding & system design
- Product and technical judgment
- Data & infrastructure aptitude
- Leadership at scale
Take-home tasks were gameable and burned two weeks per hire, while whiteboard rounds rewarded memorized patterns over real system-design ability.
Prelim ran a live-repo assessment against a simplified slice of the candidate's actual future codebase, scoring architecture trade-offs and debugging under time pressure.
Three paths. One model.
Each track routes to a purpose-built assessment battery. Scores compare across your entire org.
Hire directors and VPs who can scale an eng or product org, not just run one.
Distributed systems, APIs, and infrastructure — assessed with a live coding IDE and system-design tasks.
UI craft and product sense, assessed on real feature work, not algorithm trivia.
Data pipelines, ML systems, and DevOps — assessed on realistic operational scenarios.
Supported languages & frameworks.
The live coding environment covers the stacks your engineers actually use.
The full assessment engine.
Turn on the modules your roles need. Each feeds the same scoring model.
Questions teams ask us.
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