Tech Interviews, Done Right

We interview & Assess
Engineers

Tech interviews led and evaluated by CTOs and experts. Cut your time to hire in half and ensure you hire the right people for the job, from the start.

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Average hire tenure: 2.6 years

Your candidates. Our expert interviewers. Better tech hires.

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Why use external tech interviewers?

Thanks to AssessDev, you can…

Save costs and cut time to hire

We ensure you only hire top tech talent that's suitable from day one, including culture fit. Outsourcing tech evaluations lets you assess more candidates and reduces time to hire.

Stop wasting dev time on interviews

Interviewing fatigue is real. Your developers should focus on your product, not on conducting daily tech interviews. Let us filter out the best candidates and evaluate their skills.

Get the tech job description right

Sometimes it isn't clear if you're looking for a frontend developer, a product person, or a tech lead. We help you perfect the technical requirements of your job ads.

Teach your tech lead how to interview

We provide the tech questions and coding tasks for pair programming, so you don't have to. Works for Ruby, Python, Node.js, or skills like project management.

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Leadership hiring

It takes a CTO to hire a CTO

If you're hiring your next CTO or tech lead, their skills need to be on par. An external CTO can effectively identify and assess the right candidate for the job.

What candidates say about us

“Kat is hands down a fantastic interviewer. She is welcoming and empathetic, and brought me to a good state of mind to perform the interview at my full capacity. You can feel she has loads of experience and is very well prepared.”

— Marco Caccin, Machine Learning Engineer, Recogni

Hear what our clients say

Trusted by talent teams and hiring managers

“Working with AssessDev was inspiring. The quality of their interviews shone through in the detailed documentation we received. I recommend the AssessDev team to anyone who needs to assess technical profiles at a high level.”

Daniel Kunz Co-founder, Switzerland

“Our startup was hiring our first full-stack developer. We worked with AssessDev to come up with an interview guide, which we still follow. We feel much more confident interviewing, and we're happy to recommend AssessDev.”

Vicky Clayton Data Scientist, England

“I want to share nice feedback from a candidate last week: this was the most pleasant interview I have ever had. Interviewer score: 10 out of 10.”

Anastasiia Lapchevskaia Interviewing Manager, Germany

“Kat has been a trusted partner to us, providing high quality technical interviews and ensuring our hiring process remains extremely high quality. We also love the reports she prepares. Five star service.”

Jordan Shlosberg Co-founder, England

Human in the loop, at speed, whenever you need it

Interviewed 2,500+ candidates

Trusted by teams at

We work with startups, large corporations, and leading recruitment agencies to provide tailored tech assessments — with a human interviewer on the other end, no matter the volume.

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Interview scopes

We assess on different stacks and skills

Full-Stack Tech Lead

We test anything from Python, Java, Ruby on Rails, and Django on the backend, to Node.js, Angular, Vue.js, React, and classic JS on the frontend.

Sample stack: React Node.js Next.js Python TypeScript PostgreSQL

Frontend & Mobile

We evaluate frontend and mobile developers, focused on React, React Native, Android with Java and Kotlin, plus the basics like CSS and Tailwind.

Sample stack: React React Native Swift Kotlin Flutter Tailwind CSS

Backend & Database

We assess experience developing and scaling backends such as Ruby, Python, Django, Java, and Node.js, plus database systems like PostgreSQL and MongoDB.

Sample stack: Node.js Java Python PostgreSQL MongoDB Redis

DevOps & Cloud

From AWS, GCP, and Kubernetes to the fundamentals, we assess general DevOps, sysadmin, and networking skills and experience.

Sample stack: AWS Kubernetes Docker Terraform GitHub Actions GCP

Data Science & AI

We test down to the basics: a candidate's real knowledge and skills with Python, machine learning, artificial intelligence, visualization, and data analysis.

Sample stack: Python PyTorch TensorFlow scikit-learn Jupyter pandas

Product & PM

A team of tech leads and startup founders is best placed to evaluate product thinking, design thinking, and project management beyond Scrum and kanban.

Sample stack: Figma Jira Notion Amplitude SQL Linear

CTOs & Engineering Leaders

From CTO interviews to VP of Engineering evaluations, we assess technical leadership candidates on architecture judgment, team leadership, and strategic decisions, the calls only someone who's done the job can properly evaluate. See how we interview CTOs ➔

Sample stack: System Design AWS Kubernetes Microservices CI/CD Architecture Reviews

Software & Full-Stack Engineers

We interview software and full-stack engineers on real, hands-on coding ability, not resume keywords, testing how they design, debug, and reason through problems under realistic constraints.

Sample stack: TypeScript Go Rust React GraphQL Docker

LLM Engineers & AI Product Managers

AI hiring needs its own rubric. We assess LLM engineers on prompt engineering, RAG pipelines, and fine-tuning, and AI product managers on how well they scope, ship, and measure AI features that actually work in production.

Sample stack: OpenAI API LangChain Anthropic Claude Hugging Face Pinecone RAG

Cloud Engineers

We evaluate cloud engineers on AWS, GCP, and Azure infrastructure, Kubernetes, and the cost and reliability tradeoffs that separate a working setup from a production-grade one.

Sample stack: AWS Azure GCP Terraform Kubernetes Datadog

Embedded Developers

Embedded systems interviews test a different skill set: C and C++, real-time constraints, hardware interfaces, and debugging without the safety net of a full stack trace.

Sample stack: C C++ Rust ARM FreeRTOS Embedded Linux

Data Engineers & Data Scientists

We assess data engineers on pipeline design, ETL, and data infrastructure, and data scientists on statistical thinking, model evaluation, and turning results into decisions a business can act on.

Sample stack: Python SQL Apache Spark Airflow dbt Snowflake

How does an evaluation look like?

Find out how we structure the interviews, what questions we ask, and how we assess each candidate's performance.

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