Interviews on Skype — Test candidates using a real-time code editor over Skype

Is this the first time Skype's built a feature for a specific use case? Next up: a Twitch competitor?

Ever had technical interviews? My team at Skype just released Interviews on Skype. Best part? No downloads or sign-up required. Have you ever had a remote technical screening where you have to code and talk at the same time? If yes, then you know how cumbersome the process can be. You have two different apps running—the call and a code editor—and you constantly have to switch back and forth between the two apps. We want to help people with this process and interviews on Skype that helps you conduct technical interviews. Interviews on Skype allows you to have a video call on top of a code editor that runs in your Microsoft Edge or Chrome browser (version 32 or above). You just need to go to Skype.com—no app to download. The built-in code editor supports 7 popular programming languages: C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, and Ruby. We have also included built-in syntax highlighting to help prevent syntactic mistakes during an interview.

What are people’s thoughts on this as a concept? I’m a mechanical engineer so I’ve done CAD tests for interviews but never live. That would be incredibly stressful and in my opinion not that useful to seeing my actual abilities.

Thats really cool. Did that 2 years ago with Devunity.com just saying :) implemented 3rd party video and audio popup and real time code editing with statistics on behavior inside the code editor AND integration for 2 way video from Atom Editor

I just conducted an interview with a junior dev. via Interview Skype. It's was pretty good due to the limited time between both sides. For me I only need ~30 mins to have a quick test and decide what should be done for next steps. Great job! I love it.

Hm, did you check interviewing.io? I guess they have the pole position for this purpose

This is a great idea, I like it very much. In my opinion this is very comfortable and easy to use.

Nice app

Pros:

It works

Cons:

none

Amazing idea, especially the syntax checker. Keep it up!

Very convenient solution. Thank you.

This is could help many software companies in the world. Keep up the good work!

Worked for me. Great job!

how cool!

Ooh, this is cool.