About Us

We're building a better way for startups to hire engineers.

Traditional technical interviews—algorithmic tests, abstract coding challenges—don't tell you much about whether someone can actually do the job. They definitely don't tell you if a candidate can work in your codebase, use your tools, or solve the specific problems your team faces.

Avert turns your real engineering tickets into take-home assessments. Candidates work on actual problems from your backlog in secure environments. You see how they code, think, and communicate on work that matters to your product.

We handle everything: generating assessments from your tickets, managing candidate workflows, providing secure coding environments, and tracking metrics like commit patterns and AI usage. You get genuine signal about job fit without spending days in interview loops.

We built this because we've lived both sides of the problem. As engineers at startups, Meta, Two Sigma, and Morgan Stanley, we've seen bad hires slow teams down. As candidates, we watched AI make traditional assessments meaningless. And working directly with early-stage founders, we kept hearing the same frustration: hiring was consuming their time while giving them terrible signal about candidates.

The hiring process needed to change. So we changed it.

Happy building,
Shaivi + Elena