Hiring is one of those topics you constantly hear people gripe about. I’ve been on both sides of the fence and know how hard it is to find top talent and how frustrating it can be to get lost in a stack of resumes because you didn’t include the right buzz words and acronyms.

Codio is an attempt to improve the technical hiring process. Companies post jobs and specify what programming languages they’d like candidates to be tested on. When a candidate applies for a job, they’ll be scored on an adaptive set of tests in that language. All keyboard input is recorded so whoever reviews the submissions can playback the solution and see how the applicant arrived at their answer.

We’re hoping this allows companies to screen people who are obviously terrible coders without wasting time on a phone screen or in-person interview, and gives non-technical people a better metric to judge engineers, since 90% of resumes are useless.

This is only an alpha release so there are probably bugs, but we’re iterating quickly to clean things up and add new features. My co-founder Chris and I are so excited about Codio that we’re leaving Mingle to work on it full time starting in November.

If you’re a company or recruiter and you’d like to try it out, signup at http://www.codio.com using the code ‘daveblog’. Everything is free right now and when we solidify our pricing model, early adopters will get grandfathered in at a free or discounted rate. 

Feel free to send any feedback or problems you have to [email protected].