Technical screening

Technical screening based on DevOps actions

Screen engineering candidates with practical tasks instead of theory only.

Deadnodes helps teams run technical screens with live tasks, candidate links, Code Playbook exercises, notes, transcript context, and AI-assisted evaluation.

  • Practical candidate tasks
  • Secure interview links
  • Live coding or terminal work
  • AI-assisted debrief

Theory-heavy screening

  • Generic questions
  • Weak practical signal
  • Hard to compare candidates
  • Manual reviewer notes

Deadnodes screening

  • Practical task evidence
  • Repeatable interview workflows
  • Terminal and Code Playbook options
  • Structured AI-assisted reports

Give a real task during the interview

Choose tasks that match the role: infrastructure troubleshooting, service recovery, debugging, automation, or structured live coding.

  • Developer screens
  • DevOps screens
  • SRE screens

Watch the candidate reasoning

Deadnodes keeps the meeting, task, candidate context, notes, and review materials together so teams spend less time reconstructing what happened.

  • One workflow
  • Reusable tasks
  • AI review

Use AI to draft the review

Repeatable tasks and structured evidence make it easier to compare candidates across hiring stages and interviewers.

  • Consistent tasks
  • Run evidence
  • Follow-up questions