TIRA by Formation

Name: TIRA by Formation
Rating: 5.0 (1 reviews)

Free SWE assessment, focus your interview prep & get hired

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Free SWE assessment, focus your interview prep & get hired

5.0•1 review•

304 followers

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The Technical Interview Readiness Assessment (TIRA) is a free 45-min adaptive assessment helping SWEs understand their exact skill profile and companies they're ready to interview for — packed with actionable feedback to get technical interview ready.

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Launch tags:Software Engineering•Developer Tools•Online Learning

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Jellypod

Agree with the comments around this being a perfectly timed product with the mass layoffs that are hitting tech. I'm wondering, though, that the questions and the traditional sense of software engineering interviews will change. I interviewed over 50+ people during my time at Amazon and truly believe that the interview process (at least for junior/mid-level engineers) needs to be completely overhauled. Juniors need to know system design, not dynamic programming questions. ChatGPT can do that for you :)

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2yr ago

TIRA by Formation

Maker

@piersonmarks hahaha I LOVE IT ❤️. I could debate this for hours. Here are sooome of my thoughts on the topic: 1. DS&A interviews are just a tool. If you try to screw a screw with a hammer, you'll think the hammer is a terrible tool, but the truth is that it is being used incorrectly – and I have LOADS of thoughts on ways people are executing them wrong. Doesn't mean they need to be thrown away completely. 2. DS&A is a better reflection of reality than people give it credit for. Tree structures are everywhere for example – the web DOM is just a tree, and iterating through and manipulating trees with ease IS an important on the job skill. Dynamic programming are often simplified caching problems as another example 3. DS&A is fair (with LOTS of caveats). A lot of more "practical" skills assessments can actually unfairly disadvantage people coming from backgrounds where they have worked with unusual tech stacks. Dynamic programming is a great example of a type of question that is likely a poor question for certain roles, but I think CAN be a good question for certain other roles, depending on the team and company's goals. This was really challenging to write a comment that wasn't 10x longer, but again, a debate topic I welcome and love! Cheers 🥂

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2yr ago

Jellypod

@sophienovati wow I wasn’t expecting such a well thought out and worded response. Interviews (for all roles) are just super hard! Wishing you the best on this launch :)

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2yr ago

Coding interviews are notoriously challenging and demand extensive preparation, especially in today's competitive market. I spent over a year preparing myself. Typically, you would go through a set of questions, like the Blind 75, try to solve as many as you can, and then assess your own performance. Frankly, it's a pretty tedious and time-consuming process that requires a lot of grinding. This product has the potential to save anyone a lot of time by providing an in-depth assessment of their skills and knowledge, pinpointing the specific areas to improve. With a score of 764, it seems there's quite a bit of room for me to improve too :)

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2yr ago

TIRA by Formation

Maker

@double_why Love seeing some Formation Fellow support here!!! You're so right — interview prep can be a *grind*. Thank you so much for taking the TIRA and so perfectly distilling down why this is so important. To make sure you don't spend pressure time blindly studying when you can be optimizing your interview prep!

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2yr ago

👋 Annie from Formation here! While not an Engineer myself, I've worked with SWE job seekers throughout most of my career in academic advising and now as a Fellow Manager for Formation. I am so excited to see this new tool and so very proud of the team for their hard work in developing it! I cannot wait for users to have actionable feedback on their skillsets and areas for improvement!

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2yr ago

TIRA by Formation

Maker

@annie_connors 💙💚💜

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2yr ago

Hey there! Selena from Formation here! 👋 Over the last decade, I recruited and hired thousands of software engineers at Meta - specifically college students looking to land their first jobs of their technical career. Most of whom have the least amount of experience with technical interviewing, and when you layer that on top of interview anxiety, imposter syndrome, diversity, gender, socio-economic disparity, inequity and privilege - the odds are not in your favor. Sure I helped thousands of students land their dream job, but we never talk about the tens of thousands rejected who didn't get the job. At the time, there wasn't much effort or energy put into how to help those students better prepare and study to re-interview and I wish this product (or Formation) was around to help them improve their skills. This would have been an invaluable resource to them and I am so glad it exists today! I am SO BEYOND proud of this team - congrats on the launch today!! 🥂

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2yr ago

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Maker

@selena_ma 💜💙💚

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2yr ago

Hey there! Cara from Formation here! 👋 In my first two years at Formation as a Fellow Manager, I worked with hundreds of amazing Fellows looking to up-level their careers. While they all had unique stories, there were two very consistent pain points that came up for technical interviewing which led them to our door: 1. Not knowing what their unique skill gaps were for interview preparation. When staring down the 1000s of Leetcode questions out there, the decision fatigue when it came to practice and preparation hindered them from optimizing their learning. 2. Never feeling "ready" to interview. It can be scary to put yourself out there, and by extension, it can be easy to fall into a holding pattern of constantly practicing and waiting for that mythical day that you feel fully ready (spoiler alert: that day often doesn't come!). Without outside input on readiness, it was extremely rare for anyone to feel like they were prepared, even when they were. As a Product Manager, I LOVE that TIRA allows us to help people address these two pain points at scale - figure out where you can grow your skills, and get a pulse check of how your current skills stack up for your goals. I am excited to see this tool help more and more people as they look to further their careers! AMAZING work team, and congrats on the launch! 🚀

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2yr ago

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Maker

@cara_leath 💚💜💙

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2yr ago

TIRA by Formation

Maker

👋 Hello to the Product Hunt community! I’m Sophie, CEO at Formation, she / her / hers, engineer, restless thinker, leader, snowboarder, dog lover and one of the proud makers of TIRA. The job market has been tough, and there’s no of improvement anytime soon with thousands of layoffs just 3 weeks into this year. People from underrepresented backgrounds continue to be disproportionately hit. TIRA was born out of deep passion to equalize the playing field for engineers everywhere. Key features: * ⚙️ Dynamically generated test that adapts to the test taker’s skill level * 🌈 Covers all common topics included in most coding interviews * 🔍 Identifies the companies you’re ready to interview at (or not) * ⚖️ Optimizes your interview prep by identifying your most important skill gaps * 🤺 Provides personalized action items to improve your performance If you’re an engineer on the job hunt, preparing for a job hunt try it out 💪💪! It’s 100% free, takes only 45 minutes, and will immediately help you optimize your interview prep. I hope it is helpful to you. If not, we are hungry for your feedback! 💜💛 Thank you SO MUCH to Chris Messina for hunting us and to everyone for supporting this launch! Let’s all take one small step towards building a more diverse and inclusive tech industry. 🧡💙

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2yr ago

TIRA by Formation

Maker

👋 Hello everyone, Michael from Formation here! While I’m building Formation now, my background at Meta as an intern all the way to an E7 principal engineer has given me the insight into what engineers really need on the job hunt. The job market is difficult and many engineers are unfortunately facing layoffs, possibly after many years at their current role. What that means is that these seasoned engineers are... ❓ Unsure of how the skills they’ve built up on the job translate into technical coding interviews ❓ Unsure of the best resources on the market to efficiently prep ❓ Overwhelmed with advice from online forums and company-provided interview prep guides All of that results in inefficient prep time being wasted. I’m proud to have built the TIRA to help engineers navigate the turbulent market to give them a window into how their skills truly stack up and translate in interviews, and provide more guidance into the most effective way to spend your prep time. Thank you to everyone who helped create this, and thank you to everyone for trusting us to be apart of our job hunt!

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