For engineering hiring teams
Stop screening.
Give them a shift.
Proven replaces the online assessment with a 30–90 minute simulated work session: talking through a design with a teammate, building in a real IDE, writing the standup. You see how they actually work — with evidence, not a black-box score.
A shift, not a test
40m
design discussion
10m
build
25m
written standup
5m
A design conversation out loud · a ticket in a real editor with a real test suite · the standup that ties it together. AI-tool use allowed and assessed, if that's how your team works.
How it works
01
Describe the role
One text box: what do you actually want to find out? Proven designs the shift — blocks, rubrics, a teammate persona, and a small realistic codebase in your stack.
02
Review every word
Adjust weights, edit tickets, toggle blocks. Nothing reaches a candidate until you approve it, and the scoring weights are yours, not ours.
03
Read the receipts
A ranked leaderboard where every score cites its evidence: audio and transcripts, real diffs and test runs, standups, AI-usage logs. You decide who advances.
Fair by design
Rubrics reward reasoning and good questions — never accent, typing speed, or trick recall. Voice trouble degrades gracefully to text and is judged identically.
A human decides
Proven ranks and evidences. Advancing or rejecting is always your call — built for UK GDPR and EU AI Act posture from day one.
Candidates get value
Every candidate receives a written feedback report on their strengths and gaps, whatever the outcome. Your funnel stops feeling like a wall.
Contact sales
See a trial shift for one of your open roles.
Tell us what you're hiring for and we'll set up a live walkthrough — your role, your stack, your priorities. Early partners work directly with the founder.