MountBlue is well known amongst budding developers and provides a great opportunity for them to upskill and work with companies such as Slice, Razorpay, Nykaa and upGrad. It receives many applications and ends up admitting only a tiny fraction of them. So, one of its biggest challenges is to be able to thoroughly screen developers for their existing skills even before they are admitted into the bootcamp.
MountBlue decided to use pre-screening assessments to automate the shortlisting, making the process more objective and less time-consuming. They would create programming tests and share it with all their applicants and then interview only those who performed well on the assessment.
Initially, MountBlue used HackerRank to conduct these programming tests. While HackerRank provides a huge Question Library, MountBlue’s team found it difficult to prevent candidates from cheating. So, a lot of the candidates that qualified for the interviews weren’t as good as they had hoped for.
With limited proctoring capabilities on HackerRank, candidates were then instructed to record their screens using Loom during the test. MountBlue’s Team assessed submissions by individually reviewing these Loom videos. This was cumbersome for the team as well as the candidates. Besides, this method was not foolproof. With a drop in efficiency and raking huge bills for conducting these tests, the company was on the lookout for a platform with robust proctoring, customisable features and an affordable pricing structure to conduct assessments at scale.