A senior-grade technical bar, before you have a senior team.
A young team has no screening infrastructure and no slack to absorb a wrong hire. Give every candidate the same real task in an isolated cloud environment, and read what they built instead of guessing from a CV.
Mission
3h limitShip it behind a load balancer
Set up the web server- Deploy the API service
- Route traffic through the load balancer
- Prove the health checks pass
2 of 4 complete
Live environment
Running- vmlab-vm-01Ready
- svcapi-serverReady
- lbgatewayProvisioning
2h 12m left of the 3h limit
Each early hire is a large fraction of the company
Without Scalyz
With Scalyz
What is at stake
You have no room to be wrong, and no bar to be right against
A big company can absorb a bad hire. A young team cannot, and it has no in-house standard to catch one before it happens.
What is at stake
A large slice of the team
At your size a hire that does not work out is not a rounding error. It is a real fraction of the company and months you do not have.
What you lack
The infrastructure
No screening process, no interview loop, no senior on staff to say what good looks like. The task has to carry all of it.
What you cannot afford
To go slow
You have to hire fast, but fast without a bar is how the wrong first hire sets the standard for everyone after.
Live in an afternoon
Three steps from the job post to a shortlist you can defend, with no screening calls.
Backend hiring, July
Open
6 invited · 4 completed
Closes Friday, 18:00
Invite the whole list at once
You pick the test and the deadline, then send your whole applicant list at once, by email, CSV, or a shareable link.
Live environment
Running- vmlab-vm-01Ready
- svcapi-serverReady
- lbgatewayProvisioning
2h 12m left of the 3h limit
Candidates work when it suits them
Each candidate gets their own machine, a real one, with a real task already loaded.
Camille Durand
DevOps assessment
No integrity flags
The shortlist ranks itself
Scoring runs automatically against the task you set, so the ranking builds as candidates finish.
Mission
3h limitShip it behind a load balancer
- Set up the web server
- Deploy the API service
- Route traffic through the load balancer
- Prove the health checks pass
2 of 4 complete
Camille Durand completed the lab2m
Report ready for reviewjust nowHugo accepted your invitation1hA senior's bar, without a senior on staff
Send candidates a published task built around real systems, or bring your own files as a .zip so the test matches your stack. Either way the task does the checking a senior engineer would, and you run it yourself first, as a candidate, before anyone else sees it.
- Scored automatically on the end state of a real system, not on an answer
- Import your own scenario as a .zip, rename it, and run it yourself as a candidate first
- One credit per candidate, reserved on send, released on expiry, no seats
The questions we get
Straight answers on how the tests, the scoring and the credits actually work.
What is a Scalyz lab, exactly?
A real virtual machine with a real mission, not a quiz. The candidate works with the same tools they'd use on the job, and the session is recorded so you can review the evidence later.
Who scores it?
Automatically. The checks run against what the candidate delivered, and you get a report broken down skill by skill, so no one on your team grades a thing by hand.
Can they cheat with AI?
A chatbot can suggest commands, but it can't run a live system for the candidate. The mission has to be done on the machine itself, and any cheating signals come with context, so you can judge them yourself.
What do I pay?
In credits: one per candidate. A credit is reserved when you send an invitation and released if it expires unused. You pay per candidate tested, never per user.
Can I bring my own exercise?
Yes. Upload your files as a .zip, rename the mission to match your role, and run it yourself for one credit first. What you tested is exactly what candidates get.
What is it like for candidates?
On their own time. They start when it suits them, work with real tools on a real machine, and finish in one sitting. It runs in English and French.
Set the bar with your first hire
Book a demo and we will run it on a role you are hiring for now.
One credit per candidate, reserved on send, released on expiry, no seats
