Meridian replaced take-home tests with live assessment and cut technical hiring time in half.
A mid-size bank's platform engineering team was losing candidates to a two-week take-home process — Prelim's live IDE closed the gap.
What the team was dealing with.
Meridian's take-home assignments took candidates 8+ hours to complete and often sat ungraded for a week, causing strong candidates to accept competing offers.
Interviewers suspected some take-homes weren't original work, but had no reliable way to confirm it.
How we solved it.
Prelim's Live Coding IDE replaced the take-home with a 90-minute, proctored session against a realistic slice of Meridian's own platform code.
AI-assisted anti-cheat flagged two sessions for review without rejecting either candidate outright — both flags were false positives, cleared by a human reviewer within the hour.
“Candidates actually said the assessment felt fair. That's not something we'd heard about our old take-home in three years.”
See what Prelim could do for you.
Bring three real openings and we'll build the assessments live.