How HackerEarth’s collaborative tests and solutions helped CloudBoom elevate their technical hiring
About CloudBloom
CloudBloom is a dynamic technology consulting company that seamlessly combines design, strategy, and technology to craft solutions that empower enterprises and businesses to navigate the rapidly evolving digital landscape. Established in 2017 and headquartered in Bangalore, CloudBloom has made a name for itself with their innovative platforms and solutions that enables eight industries, spanning multiple functions, and have been instrumental in driving growth and efficiency across these sectors.
Backed by world-class platforms, cutting-edge solutions, and a team of experts specializing in microservices, DevOps, IoT, Technology Consulting, Mobile Applications, AR/VR, AI/ML, Web3, and various other cutting-edge technologies, CloudBloom has been uniquely positioned to empower their clients. As part of their growth strategy, they aimed to strengthen their technical workforce by optimizing their hiring process.
Requirements and challenges faced pre-HackerEarth
As a dynamic product and services company specializing in cutting-edge technologies, CloudBloom recognized the significance of strengthening their technical workforce. The recruiting team wanted to amp up their hiring processes, and they conducted an internal review to understand gaps. The review highlighted significant issues in their existing process:
Concerns around efficiency: Hiring managers spent valuable hours interviewing candidates who lacked the necessary technical skills, leading to eventual project delivery delays.
Lack of technical competence: It was crucial for the CloudBloom team to ensure that candidates selected had the required technical proficiency for roles involving cloud services, software development, and data analytics.
Managing workplace diversity and inclusion: The CloudBloom recruitment team aimed to create an inclusive and diverse workforce, where every candidate had an equal opportunity.
To mitigate these challenges and succeed in their objective to build a more streamlined, bias-free, and skill-driven hiring process, ClouBloom partnered with HackerEarth in the month of May, 2022.
How HackerEarth helped
By collaborating with HackerEarth, CloudBloom addressed the above mentioned challenges, optimizing their hiring process for maximum impact. Below are a few key features of HackerEarth Assessments that helped with this:
Customized pre-screening tests: With HackerEarth, the CloudBloom team could save valuable hours as the platform offers automated test creation for a wide range of sought-after roles. Furthermore, the CloudBloom team found value in the custom test creation feature, allowing them to develop specialized pre-screening tests tailored to assess specific technical skills required for various job roles. These tests encompassed a range of skills, including but not limited to cloud computing expertise, programming languages, and data analysis capabilities.
Rich growing library of questions: Having a large library of unique questions at their disposal and pre-built assessments allowed the team to select questions and create highly accurate tests aligned with the specific skill sets demanded by diverse positions. Notably, HackerEarth consistently enriches this question bank on a monthly basis, catering to a wide spectrum of technical assessment requirements.
Scalable assessments: CloudBloom seamlessly integrated these assessments into their initial application process, facilitating the swift identification of candidates meeting the technical criteria.
Anonymous assessments and evaluation: Following the assessments, CloudBloom team used the anonymous grading option within HackerEarth, eliminating any preconceived notions related to candidates’ identities. While it is challenging to entirely eliminate bias from any process, this strategic step significantly mitigated initial biases in screening. It ensured that only candidates possessing the necessary technical competencies moved on to the subsequent interview rounds, creating a fairer selection process.
Comprehensive reporting: Through their collaborative partnership, HackerEarth assisted the CloudBloom team in generating comprehensive candidate reports that provided valuable insights into strengths and areas requiring improvement. This data-driven approach enabled the CloudBloom team to make informed decisions throughout the hiring process.
Outcome and Next Steps
By adopting a tailored and collaborative approach to technical hiring in partnership with HackerEarth, CloudBloom achieved a significant enhancement in efficiency, reduced bias, and ultimately secured better hiring outcomes.
With HackerEarth, a range of significant benefits were observed:
- Enhanced efficiency: CloudBloom significantly reduced the time dedicated to initial screenings, enabling hiring teams to focus on interviewing candidates who had already demonstrated required technical competence.
- Bias mitigation: Anonymous grading and standardized assessments effectively neutralized unconscious biases that could creep in during the initial screening stages.
- High-quality hires: Pre-screening tests ensured that only candidates with the required technical skills advanced to the interview stage, resulting in improved hiring outcomes.
- Streamlined process: The collaboration streamlined the hiring process, leading to a reduction time-to-hire and overall recruitment costs.
- Improved candidate experience: Candidates appreciated the transparent evaluation process, enhancing CloudBloom’s employer brand and providing a positive candidate experience.
By employing customized pre-screening tests and questions, CloudBloom made substantial improvements to its hiring process, ensuring the selection of candidates with the requisite technical skills. This case study highlights the value of collaborative approach with HackerEarth and shows how it can provide a solution that not only benefits employers but also enhances the overall hiring process. Technical hiring at CloudBloom now is more precise, efficient, and equitable for candidates and the team plans to continue using the platform for future hires as well.
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