Andela Acquires Certified, The Technical Expertise Evaluation Platform

Andela, the community for distant technical expertise, has acquired Certified, the technical abilities evaluation platform to establish, qualify, and certify prime engineers.

Andela’s international expertise neighborhood can even broaden with the addition of greater than 3.6M engineering customers through Codewars, a web-based neighborhood powered by Certified that allows technical expertise to compete and enhance their sensible coding abilities in gamified challenges.

“With the Certified acquisition, Andela expands and accelerates our capability to supply and expertly assess expertise,” mentioned Jeremy Johnson, founder and CEO of Andela. “Labor marketplaces are constrained by inefficiencies between provide, demand and high quality —Certified permits us to handle these inefficiencies by offering the licensed proper expertise on the proper time. Firms will proceed to belief that expertise sourced by means of Andela has the wanted abilities no matter the place they stay and work.” 

Certified is constructed with the objective of offering a developer-friendly technique to successfully assess technical abilities. Protecting the developer expertise as our focus, we’ve created a format that harnesses real-world duties and makes use of built-in testing frameworks for a seamless coding expertise. These beliefs have constructed an enterprise-grade and educational-quality platform, with developer enchantment.

Certified additionally runs the developer neighborhood Codewars the place over 1,000,000 builders type a trusted foundation for Certified’s code assessments. Certified evaluates a potential developer’s code and programming aptitude, giving a transparent 0-100 rating on their capability. This fashion customers can give attention to assessing the mushy abilities, like communication, motivation and drive.

The platform supplies customers with ready-to-go Assessments that one can ship to candidates immediately. They’re teams of challenges, chosen out of its Library efficient for hiring and helps Javascript, Ruby, Python, C#, Java, PHP, C, C++, Goal-C, Swift, Elixir, Typescript, Bash, Clojure, Haskell, Go and Coffeescript, Scala and Groovy.

Jake Hoffner, the Co-founder and CEO of Certified, added, “The tech business has traditionally relied on hiring practices which have confirmed to be ineffective. The expanded platform will enable firms to create hiring processes for software program engineers which might be predictive of their on-the-job efficiency. As well as, we offer firms and our rising tech neighborhood an even bigger, broader, and higher alternative to attach globally.”

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