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Technology companies use CogniHR to screen engineering candidates on code they actually write. Assessments compile and run submissions in 71 languages against hidden test cases, so a shortlist reflects demonstrated ability rather than résumé keywords — with sourcing, interviews and onboarding in the same platform.

Languages
71
Screening basis
Executed code
Question source
Generated per role
Tools replaced
3–4

What usually goes wrong

Three failure modes we hear repeatedly, and what changes here.

Résumé keyword matching does not predict engineering ability

Keyword screening surfaces candidates who describe skills well. Executable assessment surfaces candidates whose code passes the test cases. For engineering roles those are different populations, and only one of them can do the job.

The assessment vendor is a second contract and a second login

The usual stack is an applicant tracking system plus a separate coding-assessment subscription, wired together by an integration that loses context in both directions. Here the assessment is a stage in the pipeline, and the result lands on the candidate record.

Nobody closes the loop on whether the bar was right

Assessment scores live in one tool and performance reviews in another, so the question of whether high scorers became strong engineers never gets asked. Holding both in one record makes it answerable.

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