Start with the role
Capture the level, working context, and skills the job actually calls for.
For hiring teams
Run a serious technical hiring process without running it by hand.
Turn the role into a structured assessment pipeline, grade every submission against the same criteria, and send the evidence that needs judgment to your team.
Automated hiring pipeline
ShowWork
ROLE CONTEXT
Backend platform engineer
Ready to build
01
Role
Signals and constraints
02
Recommended pipeline
Three practical stages
03
Candidate work
Work plus reasoning
04
Rubric grading
Same criteria, every time
05
Human review
Judgment stays with your team
Available today
The full pipeline stays connected.
The role context informs the stages. The stages carry their own rubrics. Candidate work returns to one review queue.
Build the assessment pipeline
Create coding, take-home, and system-design stages from a recommendation or build them by hand.
Invite candidates or publish to the board
Share roles by private invite link or public board listing while keeping role details, instructions, deadlines, and assessment flow together.
Collect the work
Keep submissions, reflections, and stage status attached to the same hiring pipeline.
Grade against the rubric
Run a consistent first pass against the approved criteria and surface the evidence behind each result.
Make the call as a team
Review the work, inspect exceptions, and keep the hiring decision with the people responsible for it.
Automated first pass
Stop reopening files just to answer the same review questions.
ShowWork evaluates submitted work against the approved rubric and keeps the supporting evidence beside the result. That gives reviewers a consistent starting point without pretending judgment can be outsourced.
Use the criteria your team approved
Every first-pass evaluation is anchored to the finalized assessment and its weighted rubric.
Organize the evidence
Bring relevant output, test results, and rubric findings into a reviewable result instead of a loose summary.
Keep people responsible for the decision
Reviewers can inspect the submission and resolve exceptions before making a hiring call.
Grading and reviewer handoff
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Submission
Received
candidate-work.zip
Tests, source, and reflection
Private checks completeReflection attached
Weighted rubric
First pass
Implementation
34 / 40
Reliability
22 / 30
Reasoning
Review
WEIGHTED RESULT
74
Needs human review
Reviewer handoff
1 item
Inspect the tradeoff
The solution is sound, but the failure-mode explanation needs judgment.
Open evidenceAdjust scoreRecord decision
Automated grading routes attention. It does not make the hiring decision.
Three assessment formats
Use the kind of work the role actually requires.
Combine stages when one exercise cannot answer every important question. Each format has its own candidate experience and reviewer package.
Coding
Assess implementation and debugging in a timed coding workspace with visible and private validation.
Configured language and runtime
Starter code and examples
Tests, reference solution, and rubric
Take-home
Give candidates a practical project to complete locally, with clear effort, window, and submission rules.
Starter project and commands
Private file validation
Upload notes and reflections
System design
Evaluate architecture and tradeoffs in a blank-board session with continuous reasoning.
Role-specific design brief
Board and narration workspace
Structured discussion rubric
Operational control
Know what needs attention before it becomes another spreadsheet.
Pipeline readiness, invitation activity, submissions, failed evaluations, and review backlog stay visible in the company workspace.
Private candidate links
Open a finalized role, issue a secure invitation, and keep each candidate tied to the right pipeline.
Weighted stage results
See stage progress and evaluation state without rebuilding the hiring record by hand.
A focused review queue
Bring pending human review and evaluation problems to the front of the team’s work.
Pipeline builder
ShowWork
Role context
Step 1
Senior backend engineer
API platform · Distributed team
API design
Reliability
Tradeoffs
Signals captured once
Recommended pipeline
3 stages
Debug a production API
Coding
Ready
Extend a service boundary
Take-home
Ready
Design for regional failure
System design
Ready
Review queue
Live
AUTOMATED FIRST PASS
4 ready
1 needs judgment
Reasoning evidence is mixed
Reviewers can inspect evidence, adjust scores, and record the decision.