Building the next generation of tech professionals: Traditional interviews out, companies gamify aptitude assessment
Over 60% institutes reported that entry-level tests were significantly redesigned in the past two years, reflecting the shift toward more skillbased evaluation, according to a NASSCOM report, 'Building the Next Generation of Tech Professionals'.
Employers are increasingly looking at coding proficiency, logical reasoning and real-world situations involving Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning while hiring candidates.
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Many top companies have stopped coming for placement drives. Now, it's all about students' capabilities and online profiles. For any coding job, companies see coding profiles on sites such as LeetCode and CodeChef to assess students' skills by seeing their ratings. They are also conducting coding competitions,' said NLN Reddy, director, career development cell, Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology.
He said companies are also looking at global certifications in emerging tech courses to assess candidates' interest in their chosen field. Companies are even hiring through own portals or third-party services, offering live evaluation to prevent manipulation by candidates.
Even the NASSCOM report highlighted how companies are using platforms such as HackerRank, HackerEarth, CodeSignal, Codility, Phenom and HireVue to screen candidates across a range of skills in a virtual set-up with AI-driven evaluation support. He said that unlike the earlier practice of screening tests for all final year students, companies are now showing interest in only those with good profiles – internships, projects, and certifications.
'Most companies either have hackathons or coding rounds. Some even have both,' said C Vinod Kumar from Forum for IT Employees.
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