Codility vs Yandex Contest

Codility offers Screen, Interview and Skills Intelligence for engineering hiring, technical interviews and workforce skills mapping. Screen provides online technical assessments with objective scores and detailed breakdowns across a library of more than 1,300 tasks. Interview supports live technical interviews in a VS Code environment, including whiteboarding, pair programming, live code execution, recordings and structured evaluation. Skills Intelligence maps engineering capabilities, identifies gaps and supports project staffing and development planning. Teams can configure AI use for each assessment, with tasks on prompt engineering, evaluating AI-generated code and working with AI tools. Codility connects with recruiting and HR systems including Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workday, SAP and SmartRecruiters. Its public API supports invitations, result retrieval, completion alerts and custom reporting, with a limit of 500 requests per user per hour. Codility says its security program is ISO 27001 certified and covered by a SOC 2 Type II report; it also states that data is encrypted in transit and at rest. It states GDPR and CCPA compliance and WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in London.

Yandex Contest is a free online platform for programming competitions, practice, and lessons with automatic solution checking. Organizers can create problems or select ready-made sets, then configure rules, deadlines, ratings, and invitations. Contests support individual or team participation and may be open or restricted. A testing server evaluates submissions according to contest rules. The platform lists more than 20 programming languages, with compiler settings for supported languages, and its demo includes checker-based, interactive, run-twice, test, text-answer, and matching problems. The public API uses OAuth permissions to register participants, manage groups, retrieve contest and problem details, submit or rejudge solutions, and export leaderboards. Users sign in with Yandex ID or organizer credentials. The organizer plan is free for up to 10,000 participants; organizers expecting more must contact Yandex. Full administrator-panel access requires a form.