AI wrote the code. You need to test thinking.
AI writes more and more code nowadays. Your live coding challenges test who panics. Take-homes test if someone can have an AI build something. Neither tests how your candidates actually think.
€29 flat per invitation, no subscription
Up to 3 challenges
per invitation
in-page AI
to follow reasoning
Full transcript
answers, chat, pastes
Take-homes are long. Live coding is shallow.
Neither shows how they think.
What most interviews still do
Algorithm puzzles that reward recall, take-home projects that burn a weekend and still land without context, or 45 minutes of whiteboarding that measures nerves more than judgement. Meanwhile every candidate is already using AI behind the scenes anyway.
What actually matters
How a candidate frames an ambiguous problem, what they decide to ask, what trade-offs they make, and how they explain their reasoning afterwards — with AI in the mix, like it'll be on day one. That's the signal. Your interview should start from it, not try to recreate it live.
What is CriticCode
An interview prep workspace, not a scoring engine.
You author a challenge — a real one, the kind they'd actually see in the job — and a handful of structured prompts (assumptions, trade-offs, how they'd test it, whatever matters to you). The candidate works through it in their own words, with an AI collaborator on the side they can brainstorm with.
When they submit, you see everything: their answers, the full AI transcript, and every piece of text they pasted in. Use it as the foundation of your follow-up interview instead of starting from zero.
How it works
Four steps. One link. Real signal.
Author a challenge
Write the challenge statement and the prompts you want answered. Reuse it across candidates.
Invite the candidate
Enter their details, pay securely via Stripe, and they get a one-time link by email.
They work the challenge
They answer each prompt in their own words and can brainstorm with an AI collaborator built into the page.
Walk into the interview prepared
Review their answers, the full AI transcript, and any pasted content — then use it to drive the conversation.
Why CriticCode
AI-proof is the wrong frame.
AI-native is the job.
Most assessments are built to stop candidates from using AI. Ours is built around them using it — because that's the job now. What you want to see is how they use it: what they ask, what they keep, what they push back on, how they explain their thinking after.
The transcript tells you that. The answers tell you how clearly they think. The paste events tell you what they leaned on versus what they reasoned through. Together, they give you the tools for an interview that actually goes somewhere.
Pricing
Simple. No subscription.
Pay per invitation. No monthly fees, no annual contracts, no per-seat pricing.
€29
per invitation, flat fee — up to 3 challenges included
- ✓ Unlimited challenge library (reuse across candidates)
- ✓ Up to 3 challenges per invitation, same flat fee
- ✓ AI collaborator included, no extra cost
- ✓ Full transcript: answers, chat, paste events
Stop guessing at interviews. Start from real work.
Send up to 3 challenges per invite. They work through each with an AI collaborator. You walk in with their thinking already on the table.
Send your first invitation → Start now →