How does Revature evaluate candidates' problem-solving skills?

Revature evaluates candidates' problem-solving skills primarily through coding challenges and technical interviews. This approach allows candidates to demonstrate their practical abilities in real-world scenarios, showcasing how they tackle complex problems and implement solutions using coding. By engaging candidates in coding challenges, Revature can directly assess their programming proficiency, logical reasoning, and ability to think critically under pressure.

Coding challenges typically involve solving algorithmic problems or completing tasks that mimic the work they would be doing as software developers. This practical assessment is effective because it gives insight into a candidate's coding style, efficiency, and understanding of data structures and algorithms. Technical interviews often complement these challenges by allowing interviewers to explore a candidate's thought process, approach to problem-solving, and communication skills as they explain their reasoning during the coding process.

The other methods listed, such as group discussions, theoretical knowledge assessments, or written examinations on programming theories, may provide some insight into a candidate's background knowledge but do not evaluate practical problem-solving abilities in the same way that hands-on coding challenges do. Practical coding assessments are more closely aligned with the actual skills needed in a real job setting, making them a key component of Revature's evaluation process.