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Hire engineers who already work the way you need.

Every engineer in the candid network is vetted on real tasks, with real AI tools. No whiteboard performances. No guesswork about who's actually AI-native.

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"Strong AI skills" on a CV means nothing right now.

Everyone claims to use AI. Almost nobody has rebuilt how they work around it. Finding the engineers who have is genuinely hard.

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CVs are noise

"Proficient with AI tools" could mean anything from daily Claude API use to asking ChatGPT once for a regex. You can't tell from a resume.

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Live coding tests don't show AI fluency

Most technical screens still ban AI tools. So you're testing how they code without the thing that makes them 10x. That's backwards.

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You're spending 6 weeks finding out

By the time you've run 5 rounds and discovered they're not actually AI-native, you've wasted a month and lost other candidates.

We vet them. You hire them.

Every engineer in the network has passed the candid assessment - a real task, screen-recorded, with AI tools not just allowed but expected.

What we assess

  • → How they structure a problem before reaching for AI
  • → Which tools they reach for and why
  • → How they verify, iterate, and recover from AI mistakes
  • → Output quality - does it actually work?
  • → Speed - are they genuinely faster with AI, or just chatting with it?

What you get

  • → Access to a curated pool of vetted, AI-native engineers
  • → Watch their actual assessment recording before you reach out
  • → Skip straight to conversation - no screening rounds needed
  • → Full-time matches only - engineers actively looking
  • → Faster time-to-hire, lower interview overhead

See how they actually think before you talk to them.

Every engineer's assessment is screen-recorded. Watch how they search, which AI tools they reach for, how they debug, and how they recover when something doesn't work.

candid - assessment_alex_m.webm ✓ Accepted
38:14 / 45:00
Alex M. - Senior fullstack, 6 yrs exp - uses Claude API daily Available now

"We're not looking for engineers who've heard of Claude. We're looking for engineers who'd be slower without it."

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