Stop Torturing Engineers

Finding elite engineers today is a time-intensive process that’s both boring and needlessly stressful for candidates. Every company has hacked together its own combination of Leetcode tests, whiteboard exercises, and live coding pressure tests to determine whether an engineer can do the job. None of these practices resemble the actual process of great engineering. And now, the use of AI is simultaneously a required skill as well as a cheat code for hiring tests.

Elite engineering is about outcomes, not tools, coding languages, or AI. In the real world, an engineer receives a challenge, an SLA, and production load. Why should the interview be any different?

Solution: Meet the SLA, and Have Fun

The Crucible by SREForge is a game that elite engineers love. It enables you to evaluate candidates on their ability to handle your production load, and gives the candidate the freedom and feedback to explore solutions meet or exceed the SLA - or give up.

The Crucible makes it easy for engineers to focus on what they do best: set up an environment, build and iterate code to meet an SLA, and find the most efficient path to an outcome using their own code, AI copilots, or divine intervention.

All while providing a state-of-the-art development and release environment that simulates what businesses do best: ruin elegant solutions with massive production load, limited resources, irritated customers, and slow response times from unreliable services.

Crucible Advantages

• Canary Testing: Canary logs created by the candidate to read the tea leaves of production execution
• Fun with Enterprise Scale: A high load environment with unexpected traffic patterns and production traps
• Instant, Continuous Feedback: Immediate, actionable feedback from Canary | Client-side and candidate metrics related to the SLA | continuous candidate scoring for the interviewer, showing candidate behaviors and how they’re tackling the challenge