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Codility and their claimed customers review: Codility and their claimed customers. Pathetic ###. 2

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Codility is a parasitic company in Poland that administers script kiddie tests to candidates on behalf of employers who are too lazy to take a proper interview or are afraid of being blamed for the hire.

Here is a list of Codility customers and testimonials collected from the Codility site.
These may not be real customers or testimonials but ### made up by Codility.

CUSTOMERS:
iCIMS, Orange&Bronze, Ultra Electronics, iSocket, Roche, SIEMENS Opera, asurion, betfair, Tektronix, VMOBILE, ERICSSON, Hyves, PayPal
NOKIA, Beenox, SAMSUNG TELEMETRY, DuoFertility, playfire, ocado, EA, BodyBuilding.com, shopify, eHarmony, DebtX

TESTIMONIALS:
I have been extolling the virtues of your offering to all of my CTO friends.
Hugh Hyndman, Director, Affinity

Clearly distinguishes between poor, decent and great programmers.
Bjørn Stabell, Managing Director, Exoweb

Codility saved me countless hours of wasted time talking to unqualified candidates.
Eric Foster, VP of Technology, Maxwell Systems, Inc.

Monthly saves us over 200 hours of senior engineers' time.
Bjørn Stabell, Managing Director, Exoweb

Forget resumes, degrees or work experience. Passing Codility is the single greatest indicator of a candidate's ability.
Kenneth Wong, Managing Director, Exoweb

Quickly picks out the finest programmers from the sea of chaff out there.
Kenneth Wong, Managing Director, Exoweb

We loved Codility and found it very useful.
Kevin J. Jarnot, CTO, The Debt Exchange Inc.

We would never hire a candidate who scores below 80% on Codility.
Tomasz Lasica, Project Manager, 9LivesData

I absolutely love this system! For me, it's a huge time saver.
Uzi Refaeli, CTO, Koolanoo Group

Codility has become a standard for us. I can hardly imagine how would we hire without it.
Bjørn Stabell, Managing Director, Exoweb

It reduced the overall cost of recruitment without reducing the effectiveness.
Simon G. Cooke, Northrop Grumman Sperry Marine BV

Allows us to quickly focus our HR efforts on only the very best candidates.
Kenneth Wong, Managing Director, Exoweb

It just works!
Xavier Cazin, Directeur, immatériel.fr

Codility was very effective at separating candidates quickly.
Ian Caughley, StockSoftware

Codility was very helpful in shortlisting the candidates before we call them for subsequent interviews.
Prasad Nadipalli, Director, nhance Engineering Solutions

Although I only issued 20 or so tests, I found 3 excellent people and hired two.
Hugh Hyndman, Director, Affinity

Codility is great for narrowing down your interview shortlist. Forget CVs.
Marek Kirejczyk, Manager, Aenima

Codility helped us to interview only these candidates, who really can code.
Jaroslav Šatkevič, CEO, UAB Nous

Codility significantly reduced the amount of time we needed to spend on in-person interviews.
Frank Macreery, Software Engineer, XGRAPH

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asd, GB
Jul 22, 2013 12:22 pm EDT

Codility is WANK! it's for lazy ### who can't be ###ed to talk to people face to face! I am regretting applying for the job I did as those idiots made me do a test and guess what? I failed! I am not stupid but I will not let a polish piece of crap discourage me from getting my dream job. F'&kthem

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reluctantconsultant
Arlington, US
Feb 12, 2013 1:53 pm EST

it is not clear what the original poster is complaining about. Are these fake testimonials? Does Codility steal others' intellectual property? Or does he not like the idea that candidate screening should be automated?