Screening / HR
Shows how clearly someone can describe their experience
Know their work before you meet them
Turn every application into a 90-second brief on demonstrated skills, CV claims, role fit, and what to explore in the interview.
The problem
A slow hiring mistake becomes a product delay
Your company ships fast. Hiring should operate at the same speed.
16Signals
Shows whether candidate's real work fits this role before engineering time is spent
Technical interview
Shows how someone performs in a prepared conversation or exercise
known → unknown → conversation
Know before you interview
You don't have much time with this person → arrive already knowing something real
What their work shows
01
Evidence behind the experience they describe
What remains unknown
What is worth asking
We already went through their work. So you don't have to
16Signals turns years of engineering activity into one organized hiring brief-showing so you walk in already knowing what's proven, what's unclear, and what's worth asking.
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Senior Backend Engineer · Candidate brief
Alex Morgan
16Signals examined 18 months of engineering work across four repositories and organized the strongest evidence for this role.
Ready for interview46 source artifacts linked
Hiring briefSource evidence
Verified capability
Owns complex backend systems from technical decision through production release.
Unproven area
Technical leadership is visible; sustained mentorship is not yet proven.
Interview focus
Test how they make architecture decisions when delivery speed and system flexibility conflict.
45-minute interviewPrepared from evidence
Confirm roleTest unknownsDeep dive
How it works
From application to interview brief
Add the role. Invite the candidate. Receive the evidence. Use it in the interview.
01ROLE
Define what you need
Add the role, stack, and responsibilities.
A few minutes.
02CANDIDATE
Invite the candidate
They securely connect the work they want reviewed.
Candidate-controlled.
03EVIDENCE
We examine the work
16Signals traces contributions, decisions, collaboration, and work over time.
Evidence, not self-description.
04INTERVIEW
Open the brief
See what is supported, what is unclear, and what to ask.
Ready before the interview.
Research
Evidence, examined
Research on how real engineering work can make hiring faster, more accurate, and easier to verify.
Research
Why Proof Beats Opinion
Hiring should rely on real work evidence, not résumés or subjective interpretation.
Research
Why <Insufficient Evidence> Is a Trust Feature
Recognizing weak or missing evidence prevents false confidence and leads to better interview questions.
Research
What Makes a Talent Signal Trustworthy?
A signal is trustworthy when it is relevant, observable, contextualized, and clearly limited in what it can conclude.
Behind every application
Don't interview
a resume
There is a real person behind the application. Their work already contains years of decisions, mistakes, trade-offs, collaboration and progress.
16Signals doesn't decide who they are.It helps you see enough of their work to ask better questions when you meet them.
Bring us one candidate you're actually considering.
We'll show you what you could have known before the interview.