Blank CodeCollab Boards New candidates and CoreEval candidates can be invited to take a “blank” CodeCollab interview containing no pre-existing work in the board. The blank boards are a boilerplate environment for any of Byteboard’s supported languages.

Python 2 Deprecation Python 2 is now deprecated and candidates must use Python 3.

Invite Page Refresh Client invite page was refreshed to modernize the code and update the UI for branding purposes.

Time Guidance Candidate prep guides now include guidance on submission times.

Additional JavaScript Assessments Candidates now have the ability to use JavaScript across additional SWE assessments, allowing increased rotation of content.

Additional TypeScript Assessments Candidates now have the ability to use TypeScript across additional SWE assessments, allowing increased rotation of content.

Staff Engineer Now Supports JavaScript Candidates now have the option to select JavaScript when taking a Staff Software Engineer assessment.

Additional TypeScript and JavaScript Assessments Additional assessment content is now available for SWEs who wish to use JavaScript or TypeScript, allowing increased rotation of content.

Collaborative Live Coding Customers who use live coding interviews (CodeCollab) now have the ability to collaborate with candidates in real-time. This allows hiring teams to paircode and collaborate on multi-file codebases, run, test, and debug code, understand candidate communication and problem-solving skills, and adapt follow-up questions on the fly.

New Software Engineering Assessment A new assessment is now available for use with SWE candidates. This assessment currently supports Python.

New Feature-Based Software Engineering Assessment A new assessment is now available for use with SWE candidates. This assessment uses a new, feature-based code implementation module intended to better simulate engineering work and mitigate use of AI assistance tools. This assessment also serves as the basis for an upcoming SWE assessment variant.

Practice Byteboard Interview Practice interview materials were added to the candidate interview guide to better support candidates preparing for a CoreEval assessment.

Kotlin Support for SWE Roles Candidates taking SWE assessments now have the option to select Kotlin. It will be automatically included for all customers with no custom language restrictions.

Updated Skills Rating Scale The rating scale now uses the word Proficient instead of Present in an effort to make our skills rating scale more clear and accurate. The intent of the rating scale is to indicate if a skill is present to the degree required for the given role profile, not whether the skill is present or not present in an objective sense.

We corrected a wrong method description in the Kotlin version of the web assessment. While we were there, we also added wireframe images in Part 2 for all web assessments so candidates can easily see them without going back to Part 1.