The 20‑minute technical interview

Replace long screening calls with a fair, 20‑minute coding session your team can review in 5 minutes. Secure top talent before they're off the market in 10 days.

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Screen less. Hire better.

Niju replaces the entire screening gauntlet of long calls, messy notes, and scheduling chaos, with one fair, data-rich assessment.

Give time back to your engineers

Hire for real-world abilities

Offer a candidate-first experience

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Faster hiring3

The Niju difference

Stop the calls. Start the analysis.

Traditional screening

High-pressure live calls

Weeks of scheduling back-and-forth

Over $150 in lost productivity per screen

The Niju way

20‑minute, low-stress recorded sessions

Asynchronous - send a link anytime

Objective, AI-powered reports

Standardized and fair challenges that focus on practical skills

Low cost

The problem

Your screening process is costing you more than just money.
You can't afford to:

Waste time

Pull your engineers off product work to run repetitive screening calls.

Suffer inconsistency

Get different "pass" or "fail" signals from different interviewers for the same candidate.

Create bad experiences

Lose great candidates who don't want to invest time early in the recruitment pipeline.

The solution

Reclaim your team's time.

Niju replaces the time-consuming call with one fair, 20‑minute recorded challenge. We use AI to analyze the entire session - the code, the audio, and the thought process - so your team can make a better, more consistent decision.

Give time back to your engineers

A traditional screen costs your engineer 45 to 75 minutes of prep, interview, and feedback time. Niju replaces that with a single, 20‑minute candidate session and a 5‑minute AI-powered review. Give your best engineers their time back to build your product.

Hire for real-world abilities

Our 20‑minute challenges are designed to test practical, day-to-day coding fluency - not abstract puzzles. This skills-first approach is up to 2.5x more predictive of on-the-job success than a traditional interview, ensuring you hire for impact, not just for good interviewees.

Offer a candidate-first experience

Top talent is off the market in 10 days. A long, stressful process will lose them to competitors. Niju's flexible, 20‑minute asynchronous interview respects their time and showcases their skills in a low‑stress environment. A better experience leads to higher offer acceptance rates and a stronger employer brand.

20‑minute recorded sessions
Screen, webcam, and audio recording
In-browser code editor
Full interview transcription
AI-powered code quality analysis
AI-powered holistic evaluation
How it works

Get started in 3 simple steps

1. Create a job opening

Define the role with a job description and seniority level, then select which programming languages a candidate is allowed to use for the challenge. Niju curates relevant, real-world coding challenges from our library to ensure a practical assessment.

2. Invite the candidate

Share a unique interview link. The candidate completes the 20‑minute challenge at their convenience, recording their screen, audio, and video, as they 'think aloud' - simulating a realistic pair-programming session. This low‑stress format captures their coding fluency, problem-solving, and communication style.

3. Analyze the report

Receive a detailed, AI-powered report with a full transcript, code playback, and analysis of technical skills and thought process. This gives you a holistic view of the candidate's performance, allowing for fair and consistent evaluation.

Simple, transparent pricing. No subscription.

Pay only for what you use. All features included.

Special intro offer
Your first interview

$10

A one-time offer to try the full platform.

Pay as you go

$20

Per interview

Includes all AI features, recording, and playback.

Ready to offer a better interview?

1. Compares a 45 minutes traditional screening interview (which includes a 30 minutes call plus 15 minutes for prep and feedback) to the average 5-minute review of a Niju AI-powered report. This represents an 88% reduction in engineer time per candidate.2. Compares the productivity cost of $88 for a 45-minute traditional screen (which includes a 30 minutes call plus 15 minutes for prep and feedback) with the total cost of a Niju screen ($30). The traditional cost is based on a senior engineer's loaded hourly rate of ~$117. The Niju cost includes the $20 platform fee plus 5 minutes of engineer review time ($10). This results in a ~2.94x cost difference, rounded to 3x.3. Based on reducing the industry average 36-day time-to-hire for software engineers. Niju's asynchronous model eliminates the significant bottleneck of interview scheduling, which can add 8-12 days to the process. Removing this delay shortens the total hiring cycle by approximately 30%.
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