Buglyst Hiring · early access
Hire engineers who can debug real code.
Send candidates a short broken-codebase assessment. Buglyst measures how they investigate, patch, and validate a fix — not just whether they can solve another algorithm puzzle.
Normal coding screens miss the one skill the job is mostly made of.
Most of an engineer's week is spent reading unfamiliar code, forming a hypothesis about why something broke, and shipping a small, safe fix. Algorithm puzzles rarely test that. Buglyst Hiring puts candidates in front of a real, broken codebase and watches how they work.
Pick a debugging screen
Choose a template (backend, frontend/API, CI failure, incident) or assemble item families for the role you're hiring.
Send a private invite link
Each candidate gets an unlisted link. They consent, open a small broken codebase, and start — no Buglyst account needed.
Read the report, not a score
You see how they investigated, the root cause they found, the smallest fix they made, and whether hidden validation passed.
What candidates do
- ✓Opens an unfamiliar, broken codebase with a failing test
- ✓Investigates — reads code, runs checks, forms a hypothesis
- ✓Traces the root cause and makes the smallest correct fix
- ✓Re-runs checks and submits; hidden validation confirms the fix
What hiring teams receive
- ✓A per-candidate report: accepted labs, time, runs, submits, files opened
- ✓Debugging behaviour and verification discipline, not just pass/fail
- ✓An integrity section: private item, variant exposure, patch uniqueness
- ✓A debugging-skill signal — never an automatic hiring decision
“What if candidates record or share the assessment?”
No platform can fully prevent someone from recording a screen, and we won't pretend otherwise. Buglyst is built for leak containment, not fake secrecy.
Hiring assessments do not rely on a tiny set of public questions. They use private, unlisted debugging items with:
- ▸Private, unlisted hiring items (not public labs)
- ▸Rotating variants within each item family
- ▸Hidden validation the candidate never sees
- ▸Exposure tracking per variant
- ▸Patch fingerprinting to flag shared solutions
- ▸Retireable item versions
A leak may compromise one variant — not the whole assessment bank. Over-exposed variants are skipped automatically and can be retired.
- Candidate reports are private — auth + org membership required, never indexed.
- Invite tokens are random and stored hashed; a leaked link expires and can be revoked.
- Hidden tests, raw patches, and workspace internals are never exposed.
- Buglyst provides debugging-skill signals, not automatic hiring decisions.
See a real debugging report before you commit.
Look at the sample report, then request a pilot to run your first assessment with your own candidates.