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Hatchways 2.0 - Make engineering interviews look more like real work

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Craft GitHub-based assessments on Hatchways within minutes. Simulate real-world tasks (e.g. creating or reviewing a pull request) instead of LeetCode problems. Choose or modify templates, add automation, or use our ChatGPT-powered tasks.

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Jaclyn Ling
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Hey everyone 👋🏻, this is Jaclyn, I am the co-founder and CEO of Hatchways. I'm incredibly proud of the work my team has done over the last few years (especially through hyper-turbulent tech hiring times!) Today, I’m excited to share a brand new version of Hatchways: Hatchways 2.0. We started our journey years back when were part of Y Combinator. Our concept then was internships as a replacement for interviews. We’ve always been passionate about helping people from all walks of life land a job based on their skills, regardless of school, connections, or interviewing abilities. Over time, we realized the challenge in solving this problem lies in the fact that companies lack incentives to improve their processes unless it saves them money or time. Hatchways 2.0 addresses this by streamlining the interview process for companies, thus saving them time while helping them identify and hire top talent. Today’s launch brings together all of our years of learnings into one beautifully designed self-serve platform. With Hatchways 2.0, companies can: ✨ Access our platform for free for up to 10 invites per month! 🧰 Select and modify from existing, real-world GitHub tasks or customize your own to fit specific requirements 🦄 Seamlessly add automation using our unique .hatchways.gitignore files and GitHub Actions software 🤖 Try our ChatGPT-enhanced assessment, simulating a pair programming interview through interactive coding tasks 📈 Send, track, and receive assessments. Monitor candidates' progress on a Kanban board 🔗 Connect with your Greenhouse, Lever, or Ashby ATS system 💰💰 Get a bespoke assessment made for your specific use case. Up until September 1st, Product Hunt members can receive 50% off a bespoke assessment by mentioning PH launch to Hatchways. What else would you like to see? How can we continue to make the interview process more enjoyable and fair for candidates? 🌎
Dávid Sipos
As a CTO and Full Stack Developer I have to say that I'm impressed. It's a fantastic idea! Giving real-life tasks and not just a coding challenge.
Jaclyn Ling
Maker
@david_sipos Thanks David! It's definitely important to us that we keep both the candidate experience and the employer experience in mind when continuing to improve the platform! If you have any real-life tasks that you'd like to see in our pre-built catalogue, let me know!
iblb
Aight, imma give this one my upvote. the product is ambitious per se and we have to make some changes especially in making it AI proof, but the soon to be engineers of the era have been through online classes. This is not to say that online classes do suck or smth like that, this is mere verification that they really do have what it takes to be an engineer since engineers build shelters, one of human's necessities
Jaclyn Ling
Maker
@theiblb This is absolutely one of our drivers in making this product! We've always been excited about the world where self-studiers and self-taught programmers could land opportunities just as effectively as traditionally educated folks. Thanks for your support!
Adi Patel
We used Hatchways for our recruiting process recently. Candidates had good feedback and said they liked the take-away challenge portion! Keep up the great work Jaclyn and Shums!
Jaclyn Ling
Maker
@adi_patel Really appreciate the support Adi and pumped to hear about the positive candidate feedback!!
Leo Zhou
Congrats on launching 🎉 This looks like a robust assessment for technical interviews. Curious to see, can it integrate with HRIS like BambooHR?
Shums Kassam
@leo_zhou Great question and thanks for the support Leo! We have integrations with ATS systems like Greenhouse, Lever + Ashby. BambooHR is on our radar though and feel free to reach out to our team if you need that integration, we can prioritize it faster!
Jehadul Islam
Congrats on the launch! 🔥 This looks like an effective tool for any dev-based company. Best wishes.
Jaclyn Ling
Maker
@jehad_islam Thanks a ton, we appreciate the support!
Josh Ellinger
Finally a hiring product that optimizes its experience for what actually makes an effective engineer instead of someone who has grinded on hacker rank like an engineering job was a college exam.
Jaclyn Ling
Maker
@joshellinger appreciate the support! Here's to hoping we can make this the standard one day!! 🤞 If you have any thoughts on how we can continue to improve the experience for engineers, please let us know!
Bhaskar Murthy
Congrats on the launch team! We've used Hatchways successfully for hires on our team - the mix of real exercises with actionable feedback resonated deeply with our candidates, and ultimately fit exactly into our hiring process. Keep up the amazing work!
Jaclyn Ling
Maker
@bhaskarmurthy Thanks for the continuous support Bhaskar, you've been instrumental in providing ongoing candid feedback so we can improve the product!
Rajiv Ayyangar
Congrats Jaclyn and Shums! It’s so tricky to balance being efficient with your hiring time and energy vs. getting signal and creating a great candidate experience—This seems to square that circle!
Jaclyn Ling
Maker
@rajiv_ayyangar Thank you 🤗 🤗
Nilan Saha
I have tried the beta for Hatchways and I love it. The interview practices for software engineers need to change and Hatchway has got it right imo.
Jaclyn Ling
Maker
@nilans Really appreciate the support Nilan. As you test out and get to know the product, definitely let us know how we can continue to move in the right direction!!
Siamak Freydoonnejad
On top of making your interviews more objective and relevant, the candidate experience with Hatchawys is also super seamless & slick which is a great bonus. Awesome launch!
Jaclyn Ling
Maker
@siamakfr Thanks for the support Siamak, always appreciate it!!
Priya Desai
Congratulations on the launch of Hatchways 2.0, Jaclyn! 🎉 It's impressive to see how you've evolved the platform to streamline the interview process and empower companies to identify top talent. To further enhance the user experience and ensure secure and efficient user verification, have you considered exploring OTP-less for authentication? It would provide a seamless and hassle-free verification process for candidates, aligning with your goal of making the interview process more enjoyable and fair. Keep up the great work! 👍 bit.ly/try-otpless
Jaclyn Ling
Maker
@priya_desai2 Thank you Priya for checking us out! We haven't considered that yet, but thanks for bringing it to our attention, we'll check it out!
Jimmy E. Chan
Congrats on the launch! Exciting!
Jaclyn Ling
Maker
@jimmyechan Appreciate it Jimmy 🙏
Victor Zhang
Love this guys! Our team is completely remote and async and have tried a bunch of different products to make interviewing high-signal, but also not take a lot of time. What are some best practices for ow Hatchways plugs into an existing company's in-person interview process?
Jaclyn Ling
Maker
@victor_zhang1 Thanks Victor! Great question -- we've seen a ton of success in companies building off of the project in an "in-person interview". Either by having a thoughtful discussion on the applicant's decision-making process, what they would do if they had more time, edge cases they hadn't considered etc., and possibly spending 30-60 minutes adding a new feature of refactoring something together on a call (similar to a pair programming exercise). We've seen this process be the best of both worlds: high signal and an optimal way to spend interviewing time, while providing a less anxious environment for the applicant because they are building off of something they are already familiar with (rather than a programming challenge they may/may not have seen before)!
Yura Riphyak
As a hiring platform: this is a game-changer! In hiring vetting is everything -- and what hatchways does makes vetting scalable and customizable.
Jaclyn Ling
Maker
@yurij_riphyak Thanks Yura, excited to expand use cases and grow with companies like yours!
Kai Roemmelt
What a great company!
Evan Tatay-Hinds
This is hype!
Jaclyn Ling
Maker
@gaurdianaq Thank you for the support Evan!! 🙏
Lawrence Lin Murata
Congrats on the launching! This is solving a big recruiting pain point with technical interviews
Shums Kassam
@sarupbanskota thanks Sarup, appreciate the comment and support, we do hope to be helping shape the future of hiring!
Willy
If I can throw a nerf football at you and you don’t email HR and laugh it off because we’re normal humans… I’ll most likely hire you. Upvoted!! Hiring ain’t easy
Jaclyn Ling
Maker
@will_works For sure, lots of challenges to figure out in hiring! Thanks for the support Willay, appreciate it!