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Candidate experience

Candidates join from a private link into a calm coding room that saves as they type, shows what is installed, and lets them submit when they are done.

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Backend engineer interview

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

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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

1import java.util.ArrayDeque;
2
3public class Main {
4    static boolean balanced(String s) {
5        var stack = new ArrayDeque<Character>();
6        for (char c : s.toCharArray()) {
7            if (c == '(') stack.push(')');
8            else if (stack.isEmpty() || stack.pop() != c) return false;
9        }
10        return stack.isEmpty();
11    }
12}

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What is candidate experience in Autessa Technical Interviews?

Candidates join an Autessa coding interview from a private link, with no account and no download. The coding room is calm and obvious: the question beside the editor, autocomplete, Run, and a Saved indicator.

They can see exactly which libraries are installed, every limit is explained in plain language, and Submit gives the interview a clear finish line.

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Every candidate experience feature

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.

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Submit and lock

When the candidate submits, their editor turns read-only and the interviewer is told the time; the interviewer can turn editing back on with one click.

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What’s available and clear limits

A “What’s available” panel lists the installed libraries and the run time limit, and every limit or link problem is explained to the candidate in plain language.

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Candidate experience: questions

Do candidates need to install anything?

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

Can a candidate change code after submitting?

No, unless the interviewer turns editing back on.

Can candidates see which libraries are installed?

Yes. The “What’s available” panel lists them for the current language.

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Live coding room →

The live coding room is one shared editor where the interviewer and the candidate write, run and discuss the same Python or Java code in real time.

Question bank →

The question bank holds every coding question your team asks, with the prompt the candidate reads, starter code and notes only interviewers see.

Interview sessions →

A session is one live coding interview with one candidate: the questions in order, the languages allowed and a private link you control.

Candidate experience →

Candidates join from a private link into a calm coding room that saves as they type, shows what is installed, and lets them submit when they are done.

Review and decisions →

Review shows exactly what happened in the interview: final code per question and language, every run, the timeline and the interviewer’s private notes.

$ start --interview

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Create a session and send the link. Your candidate will be coding with you in minutes.

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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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