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Pre-screen IT candidates on domain basics — before you schedule a single technical round
Shynsa isn't a live-coding platform. It's the voice-based filter that stops your engineers from spending technical-round time on candidates who can't explain the fundamentals.
Shynsa runs a voice-based pre-screen for IT and technical roles — candidates verbally explain concepts relevant to the role, branching logic ends the interview early if they can't clear a basic threshold, and your engineers only see candidates who passed a structured first filter, before any live coding round is scheduled.
Start free trialThe problem
Industry-wide recruiting data shows technical hires now average roughly 17.6 interview events and 23.3 total interview-hours per hire — nearly double the interview-hours business roles require — and applications-per-hire have roughly tripled since 2021. Every one of those hours is disproportionately expensive because it comes from your most constrained resource: engineers who could otherwise be building. A pre-screen that filters out candidates who can't explain a data structure or describe their own project clearly removes the most avoidable cost in that funnel — technical-round time spent on an obvious no.
The mechanism
A pre-screen layer, not a replacement for technical rounds
Verbal explanation questions, not live coding
Ask candidates to explain a concept, walk through a past project, or reason through a scenario out loud — this is honest positioning: Shynsa evaluates communication and conceptual clarity, not live code execution.
Branch on a basic-competency answer
If a candidate can't explain a fundamental concept for the role, the interview can end early — your engineers never see that transcript.
Section-based scoring per technical domain
Group questions by domain (e.g. backend fundamentals, system design basics, past project depth) and get a score per section, not one flat number.
Shortlist goes to your technical panel already filtered
Your engineers run live coding and system design rounds only with candidates who've already demonstrated they can communicate and reason about their own work.
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Features that matter here
Custom technical question sets per role
Write role-specific verbal questions — backend, frontend, data, DevOps — rather than relying on a generic question bank.
Branching on competency thresholds
End the interview early when a candidate can't clear a basic bar, instead of running the full question set regardless.
Section-based scoring
See a breakdown by technical area, not a single opaque score — useful when different reviewers care about different sections.
Honest positioning: pre-screen, not a coding platform
We don't pretend to replace live coding rounds — we remove the candidates who shouldn't reach one.
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