Debugging Skills Test

Reading Legacy Code Live: The Backend Interview That Predicts Day-One Value

A backend engineer's real job is mostly reading and changing code they did not write. So test that. Drop a candidate into an unfamiliar repo with a bug ticket and watch how they navigate. Here is what good looks like and how to score it.

Interviewing Data Engineers on a Pipeline That Actually Breaks

SQL trivia and clean toy datasets miss what data engineering actually is. Hand a candidate a failing pipeline with dirty data and a broken job, and watch how they diagnose it. Here are the failures that reveal real skill.

How to Interview a Platform Engineer With a Real Kubernetes Cluster

Asking a platform engineer to explain a pod tells you almost nothing. Give them a live, broken cluster and watch what they do. Here are the tasks that separate real operators from people who memorized the docs.