AppsTechnical Interviews

// candidate experience

Candidate coding room

Candidates join the coding interview from a private link with no account or download, and their code saves automatically as they type.

Autessa coding interviewInterviewer connectedSAMPLE

Backend engineer interview

Your work saves automatically. Your interviewer sees your code as you type.

➤ Submit

Question 2 of 2

Balanced brackets

Return true if every bracket in s is closed in the right order.

Example

"([]{})"  → true
"(]"      → false
Java 21 ▾✓ Saved▶ Run
import java.util.ArrayDeque;
public class Main {
static boolean balanced(String s) {
var stack = new ArrayDeque<Character>();
for (char c : s.toCharArray()) {
if (c == '(') stack.push(')');
else if (stack.isEmpty() || stack.pop() != c) return false;
}
return stack.isEmpty();
}
}

// the problem

Why candidate coding room matters in a coding interview

Candidates are nervous enough. Accounts, downloads and cluttered screens add stress and cost you good people. The candidate side should feel calm and obvious.

// how it works

How does candidate coding room work?

  1. Open the link

    No account, no download: the session opens in the browser with “Opening your session…”.

  2. Read and code

    The question is beside the editor. The header says their work saves automatically and the interviewer sees it as they type.

  3. Run and iterate

    Run, add program input, and read output and errors below the editor.

  4. Choose a theme

    Light or dark, one click.

// options and settings

Every option, in one place

Option
What it does
Theme
Light or dark.
Languages
Only the languages the session allows.
Autosave
Every change is saved; reloading the tab keeps working.
Focus mode
Just the code and the output.
Wrong address
A gentle page explains to use the personal link from the invitation.

// permissions

Who can do what?

Who
Can
Candidate (anyone holding the session link while it is open)
Code, run, switch language, submit.

Company admins decide who on your team can open the interviewer console. Candidates never sign in; they only ever use their session link.

// connects to

How candidate coding room fits with the rest

// faq

Candidate coding room: questions

Do candidates need to install anything?

No. The coding room runs in the browser from the link you send.

What if the candidate reloads the page?

Their session reopens in the same tab and their code is still there.

Can the candidate open the link in a new tab later?

Yes, by opening the original link again while it is open.

$ start --interview

Try candidate coding room in your next interview.

Create a session, send the link and see it working with a real candidate.

100% customizable, code and all

Make Autessa Technical Interviews fully your own.

Use it out of the box, then change anything. Ask Autobot, Autessa’s AI builder, for a new field, screen, report, workflow or agent and it builds it into your copy of the app. Or open the code and edit it yourself. Nothing is locked: the app, its data and its code are yours.

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