AI-era technical hiring signal

Hire engineers who can think with AI.Not just prompt it.

Test coding, debugging, AI verification, and reasoning in one evidence packet.

Screen
Evidence
Live path
Why it is different

Async is delivery. The difference is AI-era work.

See more than whether a final answer passes. CodeArena tests the work engineers now do with AI in the loop, then packages the evidence for human review.

Prompt-only screen

Can they solve this isolated task?

Useful, but incomplete once candidates can bring AI into the work.

  • Final answer
  • Some test output
  • Limited reasoning trail

CodeArena signal pack

Can they build, debug, verify AI output, and explain the tradeoff?

The screen produces evidence a reviewer can inspect before deciding.

  • Executable work
  • AI critique rationale
  • Replay plus live probe

Try the move yourself

The AI says this checkout patch is safe. Click the line it got wrong.

This is the skill CodeArena screens for: can an engineer tell when confident AI output is wrong before it ships? Your reviewers see who can, with evidence.

AI assistant: “Handles rounding safely and avoids floating-point drift. Ready to merge.”

ai-patch/order-total.js
1 hidden defect

The tests pass and the AI is confident. One line still ships a money bug. Click the line you would flag in review.

Evidence packet

The output is a hiring packet, not a score alone.

Reviewers see what ran, what failed, how the candidate used AI, and what deserves a live follow-up.

Senior frontend screen

Open sample

Evidence packet ready

Code

Work

AI

AI review

Live

Follow-up

  • Submitted work

    Patch and tests attached

    Review the actual code, execution output, and timeline.

  • AI Critique

    Rationale captured

    See why the candidate accepted, rejected, or revised AI output.

  • Integrity

    No biometric scoring

    No face, voice, emotion, or personality signal.

Example next step: use live validation to probe the reasoning behind the AI critique.

Open sample report

How it works

One evidence loop from screen to live final.

Structured screens handle the first pass. Live validation adds signal only after candidates clear reviewable work.

  1. 01

    Build the role signal

    Pick a pack across coding, debugging, AI Critique, verification, and prompting work.

  2. 02

    Screen for real judgment

    Candidates solve executable work and AI-era review tasks, not just multiple-choice trivia or puzzle drills.

  3. 03

    Review the evidence packet

    See tests, replay, integrity events, rubric notes, and pending-review guards before a decision is shared.

  4. 04

    Validate live when it matters

    Escalate finalists or unclear submissions into live validation without losing the structured record.

Built for candidate review, team calibration, and defensible hiring decisions.
What CodeArena provides

Three deliverables in one evidence loop.

Your team gets a role-specific screen, a candidate evidence packet, and a human-reviewable scorecard with live validation when the decision needs more signal.

Before AI

Independent fundamentals

Executable coding and debugging prove the candidate can reason without hiding behind a generated answer.

With AI

AI direction

AI Critique and prompting work show whether they can inspect, revise, and reject weak assistant output.

Proof

Verification discipline

Tests, edge cases, runtime output, and written tradeoffs show how they decide something is actually correct.

Follow-up

Live validation

Finalists and ambiguous cases move into the same evidence loop instead of a disconnected interview.

Hiring signal

An evidence packet hiring teams can defend.

Surface what reviewers need first: what ran, what failed, what the judge found, where live validation is needed, and what the human reviewer decided.

Senior frontend signal pack

Evidence scorecard ready

42 minTypeScript

  • Executable work

    Test results, runtime behavior, failed attempts, and final correctness from screen or live sessions.

  • Structured scorecard

    Judges organize coding skill, problem solving, AI Critique, verification, strengths, and concerns for reviewer approval.

  • Live validation path

    Move finalists into a live room when the evidence needs deeper probing or AI-era integrity review.

  • Bias-resistant defaults

    No face, voice, emotion, or personality scoring. AI can summarize evidence, but humans make the hiring call.

Pricing

Paid plans with a sharp entry point and room to scale.

Start at $69/month for a focused hiring loop, then move to Business when repeat screens, replay, and bulk invites matter.

Starter

$69/month

Run one focused hiring loop with real candidates.

  • 10 candidate sessions/month
  • 5 team members
  • Evidence packet + reviewed scorecards

Business

Most popular
$399/month

Scale repeat screens, replay, reports, and invites.

  • 120 candidate sessions/month
  • Replay, reports, and bulk invites
  • Custom role packs + priority support

Enterprise

Custom

For high-volume hiring and security needs.

  • SSO and ATS integrations
  • Custom session volume
  • Dedicated success manager
15-minute walkthrough

A demo that leaves your team with a concrete hiring plan.

The scheduler lets your team pick a real demo time. Bring one real role and we will show the exact screen-to-live evidence loop your team would run.

Map one open role

Pick the signal you need: coding, debugging, AI Critique, verification, or live validation.

Walk the candidate flow

See what candidates receive, how work runs, and where integrity events appear for reviewers.

Review the scorecard

Inspect tests, replay, judge-backed findings, human review, and next-step decision support.

Leave with next steps

Get a concrete rollout plan for roles, candidate volume, and the handoff into your hiring process.

For developers

Practice the skills the interview measures.

Sharpen real coding, prompting, and AI-verification on the same engine companies hire with.

Get started

Bring AI-era evidence to your next technical hire.

Book a demo and we will walk your team through the role signal, the structured scorecard, and the live validation path on a real role.