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Ask HN: Best tool for autonomous quick coding assessments?

6 pointsby marttilaine3 months ago
We place 100s of software development students in internships in the Nordics, and are looking for a way to perform a basic coding skill assessment before matching an intern with a company.<p>Unfortunately the schools submit to us some students who cannot write code and who will claim otherwise in their written applications, and we find out about this at the latest when the intern is in a real project and unable to perform at all.<p>The goal of this light-weight assessment would be to simply answer the question: *can this intern read an assignment and proactively write some code?*<p>So the assessment should have: - a built-in editor - a time limit, like 1 hour - detecting the use of AI &#x2F; massively copy-pasting from another window to the editor - live preview of the result, e.g. a React UI the intern completed based on instructions<p>What we don&#x27;t need&#x2F;want: - live interview scenario with a supervisor - a full interview (just one assignment per student)<p>Any suggestions of tools to use? Experiences?<p>I just submitted for a demo with Coderpad but don&#x27;t really know where else to look.

4 comments

vunderba3 months ago
Short of an actual on-site interview, there&#x27;s zero chance of detecting LLMs unless the prospective applicant is completely oblivious.
y34h3 months ago
I also thought about coderpad, I have seen some codingame community challenge results and liked the report.
android5213 months ago
at this point, it is not possible. Whatever you develop, the student can just use another phone &#x2F;tablet to take a screenshot and upload it to llm to generate solution and then he&#x2F;she can just type it out.
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tacostakohashi3 months ago
Check out HackerRank?