Woven
Woven offers human-powered technical assessments to hire experienced engineers, focusing on real-world skills and providing detailed feedback to candidates.
Services
Woven offers a comprehensive suite of technical assessment services designed to facilitate the hiring of experienced engineers. The company provides human-powered technical assessments that create an engaging candidate experience while testing for a range of technical skills such as code review, debugging systems, collaboration, and programming. Woven’s assessments are benchmarked against industry pay bands or current team standards, helping teams make confident and quick hiring decisions. The service includes detailed technical feedback for each candidate, double-blind scoring by certified engineers, and quick results within one business day. Woven also offers free trials, various subscription plans, and guarantees to ensure client satisfaction.
Technical Assessments
Woven's technical assessments are designed to give teams a strong signal on a candidate’s real-world technical skills. The assessments use engaging real-world scenarios to reduce candidate dropouts and improve final interview pass rates. Skills tested include code review, debugging systems, collaboration, and programming. Each assessment is double-blind scored by two certified engineers using a detailed rubric to ensure fairness and accuracy. Woven also employs Async Proctoring to detect plagiarism or the use of ChatGPT, and provides results within one business day. This helps teams save an average of 36 engineering hours per hire and achieve a 94% success rate with Woven-hires.
Candidate Experience
Woven prioritizes a positive candidate experience by offering detailed technical feedback to every candidate and ensuring a high completion rate for its assessments. The company’s assessments use engaging real-world scenarios designed to reduce dropouts and improve pass rates for final interviews. Additional features include a candidate bill of rights to ensure a fair and transparent hiring process, and a 365-day success guarantee on all hires. Woven’s approach results in a 40% final round to offer rate and a 50% increase in offer acceptance rates.
Specialized Scenarios
Woven provides a variety of assessment scenarios tailored for different engineering roles, including Fullstack, SRE/DevOps, Frontend, Backend, and Data Science. Each scenario is designed to simulate real-world technical challenges that engineers would encounter in their day-to-day work. This allows the company to accurately gauge a candidate's skills and fit for the specific role they are applying for, leading to more effective and confident hiring decisions.
Resources for Engineering Leaders
Woven offers a range of resources to support engineering leaders in their recruiting efforts. These include blogs, podcasts, and case studies that provide insights and strategies for effective technical hiring. Additionally, Woven offers a tech recruiting playbook specifically tailored for remote startups. This comprehensive playbook guides leaders through the best practices and tools necessary for building a strong, distributed engineering team.