Bot

Bot is a GitHub App which enables the automation of interviewing workflows.

In some ways, it can be a viable replacement for expensive technical assessment or remote interview platforms. By leveraging GitHub's functionality, technical interviews happen in a platform more familiar to developers.

Technical assessments are essentially GitHub template repositories. There are no limitations imposed from Bot as to the nature or content of the assessment, so you are free to customize as much as you need. Out of the box Bot works well for live coding assignments, take-home coding assignments, code review assignments.

How it works

Bot listens and responds to slash commands present in issues or issue comments of select repositories of an organization. With these commands, interviewers are able to create an assignment for a candidate (a GitHub repository), invite candidates as collaborators, and after conducting the interview, review and grade assignments.

Anatomy of an assessment

Assessments are Github template repositories. They may provide scaffolding, tests, benchmarks or automation.

We cover a variety of use cases with the example assessments below:

• Coding Assignment
• Take-Home Assignment
• Code Review Assignment

For a deep dive into each command please refer to the reference documentation.

Contributing

Bot is built in Node.js and the wonderful Probot framework. Install any dependencies with npm.

npm install

Running Bot locally should be easy! Set the environment variables described in .env.example. During first run, many of these variables can be discovered by Probot itself. But make sure to modify app.yml to customize your instance.

npm start

Bot should be alive and kicking at port 8080!

Where next?

This project is in active development. Therefore new commands may be added, or existing commands may be modified. For a full list of the supported functionality is found by invoking the /help command.