Developer interviews

Developer technical interviews with real tasks

Run practical technical interviews with real tasks, live coding, and source-linked activity summaries.

Deadnodes combines practical tasks, Code Playbook exercises, live meetings, interviewer notes, and readable technical session records. Candidate assessments remain manual.

  • Candidate meeting links
  • Practical task picker
  • Live coding and Code Playbook
  • Technical activity summary

Generic interview stack

  • Video call in one tool
  • Coding doc somewhere else
  • Notes in a spreadsheet
  • Manual debrief after the call

Deadnodes interviews

  • Meeting and task together
  • Code Playbook exercises
  • Candidate context and notes
  • Source-linked session record

Give a real task during the interview

Use Code Playbook for debugging steps, architecture reasoning, scripting, pseudocode, or live coding questions during the interview.

  • Debugging
  • Pseudocode
  • Scripting
  • Architecture reasoning

Watch the candidate reasoning

Candidate profile, meeting context, notes, technical work, and follow-up questions stay attached to one interview session.

  • Candidate profile
  • Meeting notes
  • Transcript context

Use AI to summarise technical events

After the call, the team can review recorded actions, completed and omitted checks, errors, recovery, and validation. Interviewers write feedback themselves.

  • Action timeline
  • Task checks
  • Manual feedback