What if hiring tested the work, not the interview?
Traditional interviews test how candidates answer questions. Jobcraft is building a new way to evaluate people through realistic work simulations — so companies can see how candidates actually solve problems.
- 09:42 Opened repository
- 09:46 Investigating connection pool
- 09:51 Test failed
- 09:54 Debugging timeout
- 10:02 Implemented fix
- 10:08 Added tests
- 10:14 Requirement changed
- 10:21 Refactored
- 10:31 All tests passed _
The interview isn't the job.
A candidate can perform brilliantly in an interview and still struggle with the actual work. And someone who doesn't perform well in a traditional interview may be excellent at solving real problems.
Interview Performance
How well can someone solve an interview problem under artificial constraints?
Real Work
How well can someone understand, build, test and debug an actual system?
The Gap
Hiring teams often have limited evidence of what happens between the two.
Your engineers are spending time interviewing.
Hours of engineering time per candidate.
Every technical interview consumes time from the engineers conducting it. Jobcraft is designed to move more of the evaluation into realistic work simulations, leaving engineers with better evidence and a more focused review.
Let candidates do the work.
Give them a real problem
A realistic scenario based on the role.
Let them work
Candidates explore, implement, test, debug and make decisions using the tools they normally use.
Capture the evidence
Jobcraft captures meaningful work signals and assessment outcomes.
Help teams evaluate
Hiring teams receive structured evidence that helps them make the final decision.
Show what you can actually do.
Your engineering ability is more than how quickly you can solve an interview question.
Problem solving
Demonstrate how you analyze complex codebases, untangle constraints, and break down ambiguous requirements.
Debugging
Show your process for isolating race conditions, tracing failures, and fixing root causes under real conditions.
Architecture
Make trade-offs between speed, maintainability, and scalability in a realistic multi-module environment.
Testing
Write unit, integration, and edge-case tests to prove your solution works reliably before shipping.
Adaptability
Respond effectively when product requirements shift mid-task — just like in real engineering sprints.
AI collaboration
Use modern AI assistants to accelerate research and implementation while taking ownership of the output.
Spend less time discovering. More time deciding.
Multiple rounds of quizzing
Evidence-first evaluation
Move more evaluation into realistic work and make remaining interviews more focused.
A different kind of assessment.
Alex Morgan
Senior Backend EngineerASSESSMENT BREAKDOWN
EVIDENCE TIMELINE
Start with engineering. Build for work.
Engineering is where we're starting because the problem is concrete and measurable.
The long-term vision is a work-simulation layer that helps companies evaluate people based on how they approach realistic work.
Help shape the future of hiring.
We're currently speaking with software engineers, Engineering Managers, CTOs and hiring teams to understand what today's hiring process gets right — and what it gets wrong.
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