The traditional interview
- Memorize problems in advance
- No documentation, no search, no tools
- One right answer, produced under pressure
- Rewards rehearsal over judgment
The technical interview, reimagined
AI has changed
how engineers work.
Interviews need to change too.
Give engineers a real development environment, a real codebase, and an AI agent. Evaluate how they reason, investigate, and ship with AI, not how well they memorize algorithms.
Runs your stack in minutes
- Python
- TypeScript
- Go
- Rust
- Java
An illustration of the Alteyr interview workspace: the session brief, a Go retry function open in the editor, an AI assistant questioning the retry loop, and the record of how the session unfolded.
Why Alteyr
Interviews test memory. Work tests ability.
Nobody ships software from memory in a blank room. Yet that is how most engineers are still evaluated. Alteyr measures what the job actually asks of them.
An Alteyr session
- A real workspace with the tools engineers use every day
- AI assistants on hand, exactly as on the job
- Open-ended tasks drawn from day-to-day work
- Shows judgment, communication and follow-through
How it works
From brief to decision in four steps.
Shape the task
Pick a scenario that matches the role, or tailor one with your team.
Invite the candidate
They receive a clear brief, the rules of the session and a list of what is available to them. No surprises.
They work as they would
Time to think, tools to use, an assistant to consult. The session captures the work, not just the result.
Review together
Your panel walks through the session, discusses what they saw and decides with evidence.
The platform
Everything an engineer needs. Everything you need to see.
A real workspace
Each candidate gets an isolated environment with an editor, terminal, repository and docs, plus the AI assistants your own engineers already use.
Tasks that look like Tuesday
Build scenarios from the work your team really does: debugging, reviewing, extending. No puzzles. No trick questions.
Signal you can explain
Review the whole session, not only the final answer: what was tried, what was asked, and why. Share that evidence with your hiring panel.
Our belief
Technology should make hiring more human, not less.
AI is already part of how engineers work. A fair interview lets candidates use it, and lets you see what no tool can supply: how a person thinks, questions and decides.
Candidates are colleagues, not suspects.
The interview should feel like the first day of work.
Evidence over impressions.
Decisions rest on what actually happened in the session.
People make the call.
Alteyr informs the decision. Your team owns it.
Trust
Built to earn yours.
Hiring decisions change real lives. Alteyr is designed so candidates, interviewers and security teams can all see how it works.
Transparent to candidates
Candidates know what is recorded, what is available to them and how the session will be used before they begin.
Isolated by design
Every session runs in its own sandbox, separate from your systems and from every other candidate.
Explainable evidence
Every observation traces back to something that happened in the session. No black-box scores.
Your standards, your decision
Your team defines the criteria and makes the final call. Alteyr supplies the evidence.
Run interviews built for how engineers work today.
Give candidates a real codebase, real development tools, and AI. Then lead the interview yourself.