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Test Double Sold Itself to Its Employees - Then Went Hunting for Bigger Software Problems
The Ohio consultancy built a business by rescuing developers from bad incentives. Now its employee-owners are betting that the useful edge in AI-era software is judgment, not faster typing.
Codility
Codility is a B2B SaaS platform for technical hiring that lets enterprises assess software engineers' real-world coding skills remotely and at scale. Founded in 2009 and bootstrapped for a decade before raising a $22M Series A in 2020, it offers automated coding assessments, live technical interviews and skills-intelligence tools used by teams at companies including GitHub, Tesla, SAP and Barclays. It is also known publicly for its free algorithm 'Lessons' that developers use to practice for interviews.
HackerRank
HackerRank is a technical skills platform that helps companies screen, interview, and hire developers based on what they can actually build rather than what their resume claims. Founded in 2009 by Vivek Ravisankar and Hari Karunanidhi, the company runs a two-sided model: a community where millions of developers practice coding challenges, and an enterprise product that lets 3,000+ companies - including a large share of the Fortune 100 - assess candidates with real-world coding tests, live pair-programming interviews, and, increasingly, AI-assisted evaluation and proctoring.
Holloway
Holloway is a San Francisco-based digital publisher of book-length, expert-written guides on the practical realities of work - raising venture capital, equity compensation, technical recruiting, remote teams, and more. Each guide is searchable down to the paragraph, annotated by editors, and updated over time so the page never goes stale the way a printed book does.