Valtech Case Study

 
 

How Valtech now identifies their best candidates BEFORE interviewing them.

  • Industry: Digital Consultancy

  • Location: London

  • Number of employees: 160

Summary:

Over the past 12 months, Digital Consultancy Valtech have:

  • Saved countless hours by assessing developers skills UPFRONT more precisely

  • Effortlessly hired top quality candidates – only the best are interviewed, with 80% receiving an offer

  • Reduced their time to hire by 50%

It’s all thanks to Accelerate modernising their developer assessment process.

The Challenge:

Are you wasting far too much time with candidates who don’t have the skills you need?

This was the problem for Valtech.

“One of the things that we value very strongly is how people approach software development,” said Kevin Harkin.

“You need to know if that person, in terms of their approach to engineering, is going to be compatible with your organisation.”

“The problem was that we were spending time with too many candidates who we quickly realised were not right.”

“Our take home challenge and pair programming missed vital metrics like speed of delivery.”

“Ultimately all these wasted interviews meant we were burning the valuable time of our engineering team.”

 

“Our developer assessment process just wasn’t giving us the insights or results we wanted.
We are a busy consultancy and don’t have the time to spend with
large numbers of wrong candidates.”

KEVIN HARKIN

 

Thankfully, Valtech addressed all of these challenges with one easy solution.

 

The Solution:

Accelerate.io carried out a requirements gathering session to understand exactly what Valtech needed to know about candidates.

Using Valtech’s existing challenges and processes, Accelerate.io built it onto their platform.

Turning multiple assessments into just one that is emailed to candidates.

The modernised challenge captures the metrics that were critical to Valtech:

  • Speed of delivery (so that candidates can be fairly compared)

  • Test coverage

  • Coding technique

This provided the Valtech hiring team with everything they needed upfront.

No need to decompile or recompile code.

Each candidate’s results are presented on a single page.

 

“The way the report is laid out specifically for our needs, we know immediately if a candidate is worth spending time with.”

KEVIN HARKIN

The Results:

Within 12 months of using their new challenge, Valtech enjoy:

  • A 50% faster recruitment process. Valtech have hired their new employees before rival companies have the chance to swoop in.

  • Far less time wasted on interviews. This is proven by Valtech’s interview to offer ratio of 80%. They only progress candidates with proven skills.

  • 100% success rate with new recruits. “When we use Developer Insights, no-one has failed their probation period,” Kevin Harkin explained.

Even better, Valtech’s candidates have a better understanding of the type of work they will be doing on a day-to-day basis.

“Creating a positive and fair candidate experience is important to us” says Kevin Harkin.

“Accelerate.io enables us to allow candidates to use their own IDE and tools and pause and resume the challenge.”

“Our old process meant that we used to have to field lots of questions from candidates. Now our challenge sits on the Accelerate platform, they manage any questions from candidates.”

“Accelerate.io has made identifying and hiring our best candidates extremely easy.”