Technical interviews

Technical interviews where candidates solve real work

Deadnodes gives hiring teams one workflow for practical developer and DevOps interviews: schedule the call, choose a task, watch the candidate work, and get a clear AI-assisted report after the session.

Instead of stitching together calendar invites, video calls, task links, shared docs, notes, and spreadsheets, you run the whole technical session in one place.

For DevOps and SRE roles, candidates can troubleshoot a real incident in a live terminal. For developer interviews, they can work through a Code Playbook exercise with pseudocode, debugging steps, scripts, or live coding.

Interviewers see how the person thinks under real conditions, then review a structured summary of actions, strengths, risks, and follow-up questions.

  • Create a candidate session and send one secure join link
  • Pick a practical technical task before the interview starts
  • Run live terminal troubleshooting or Code Playbook exercises
  • Keep interviewer notes, transcript context, and candidate profile together
  • Use AI analysis to summarize what happened and what to ask next
  • Compare candidates by evidence, not memory or gut feel

Clearer hiring signal

See commands, decisions, reasoning, collaboration, and recovery path instead of only hearing theoretical answers.

Less tool switching

Meeting, technical task, live coding workspace, notes, and review stay connected to the same candidate.

Faster debrief

AI analysis turns the session into a readable report with strengths, risks, and suggested follow-up questions.

How it works

  • Create or select a candidate.
  • Schedule a meeting or generate an instant interview link.
  • Choose a live infrastructure task, a Code Playbook exercise, or both.
  • Run the interview while observing the candidate workspace and adding notes.
  • Review the AI-assisted summary before making the hiring decision.