Candidate Code

What Candidate Code is

Candidate Code manages take-home coding challenges for organizations and hiring teams handling technical recruitment. A team can upload a challenge with one git push and send it to a candidate with one click. The service creates a fresh repository for each candidate that can be cloned anonymously. Candidates can work with their own operating system, IDE and runtime tools without setting up an account on the service. Hiring teams can review commits and diffs, discuss submissions in comment threads and rate them with a five-star system. Email alerts can notify assigned reviewers when a candidate starts or finishes a challenge. The homepage offers the first 10 challenges free with no time limit. Starter costs $27 a month for up to five monthly challenges and repositories up to 10Mb; Business costs $195 a month for up to 50 challenges monthly and repositories up to 100Mb. Enterprise pricing is by contact and lists flexible usage limits, on-prem deployments and authentication integrations. Candidate Code is available on the web or self-hosted. Its terms prohibit repositories consisting of more than 50 megabytes of data. Registered-account support is available by email, with a stated response target of two working days.

Who it suits

Candidate Code suits organizations and hiring teams that manage technical recruitment challenges and want candidates to work in their own development environments. Teams can choose web access or self-hosting.

Limits

The first 10 challenges are free with no time limit. Starter costs $27/month for up to five challenges per month and 10Mb repositories; Business costs $195/month for up to 50 challenges per month and 100Mb repositories. The terms prohibit uploading a repository consisting of more than 50 megabytes of data.

Getting started

1. Open https://candidatecode.com/ on the web, or use the self-hosted option.
2. Start with the first 10 challenges free, with no time limit, or choose a paid plan.
3. Upload a challenge with one git push.
4. Send the challenge to a candidate with one click.
5. Review the candidate's repository, commits, and diffs; discuss and rate the submission.

Verdict

Candidate Code covers challenge delivery, candidate repositories and team review, with a free initial allowance and two listed monthly plans. Check repository limits carefully, since the terms’ 50-megabyte restriction differs from the Business plan’s listed 100Mb repository allowance.