INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
CodeFights started out as a competitive coding platform, but has since morphed to focus more on interview prep and helping businesses
To better reflect this focus, the service today announced that it is changing its name to CodeSignal
In addition to this, the company also today officially launched its Coding Score, a credit score-like ratings system for developers with
To round out its set of announcements, the company also announced that FICO CEO William Lansing is joining the CodeSignal advisory
The Coding Score is our equivalent of a credit score for developers because you need an easy way for the industry to agree on a standard for
He also notes that this process, where the actual hiring decision is often based on the preferences of only a few people, can lead to biased
first score is accurate to about 85 percent
As developers solve more challenges, the service starts refining the score
Developers are ranked based on their speed and accuracy (which are weighted according to the difficulty of the challenge), and how they
CodeSignal benchmarks developers against each other
To do all of this this, the team trained a machine learning model on the vast trove of data the company has collected since it launched its
first coding challenges in 2014.CodeSignal started pitching the Coding Score to recruiters at major tech firms over the course of the last
Sloyan admitted that it took a while before these recruiters trusted these scores, but today a number of these companies use the scores to
become the de facto standard in the developer hiring market
but he left the door open for adding scores for other technical fields as well
calculate a score.Bonus: To launch the new scoring system, CodeSignal calculated and ranked the average scores of users from a number of
companies and colleges.
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