Pega Tech Hiring Challenge Case Study

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CASE STUDY stockroom.io Stockroom (HR Cubes) is a talent acquisition platform powered by technology, which enables companies to host online challenges and in-person Hackathons in order to help them find the niche talent. Pega Systems develops strategic applications for sales, marketing, service and operations. Pega’s applications streamline critical business operations, connect enterprises to their customers seamlessly in real-time across channels, and adapt to meet rapidly changing requirements. Pega’s Global 2000 customers include many of world’s most sophisticated and successful enterprises. Pega’s applications, available on-premises or in the cloud, are built on its unified Pega 7 platform, which uses visual tools to easily extend and change applications to meet clients’ strategic business needs. With their globally spread client base, Pega Systems was looking for experienced software engineers to cater to their business and technology needs and bring out strategically reliable solutions. Pega Systems, Hyderabad successfully hired 7 top developers, in less than 3 weeks for 3 different software engineering profiles, using Stockroom platform.

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C A S E S T U D Ystockroom.io

Stockroom (HR Cubes) is a talent acquisition platform powered by technology, which enables companies to host online challenges and in-person Hackathons in order to help them find the niche talent.

Pega Systems develops strategic applications for sales, marketing, service and operations. Pega’s applications streamline critical business operations, connect enterprises to their customers seamlessly in real-time across channels, and adapt to meet rapidly changing requirements. Pega’s Global 2000 customers include many of world’s most sophisticated and successful enterprises. Pega’s applications, available on-premises or in the cloud, are built on its unified Pega 7 platform, which uses visual tools to easily extend and change applications to meet clients’ strategic business needs.

With their globally spread client base, Pega Systems was looking for experienced software engineers to cater to their business and technology needs and bring out

strategically reliable solutions.

Pega Systems, Hyderabad successfully hired 7 top developers, in less than 3 weeks for 3 di�erent software engineering

profiles, using Stockroom platform.

With their globally spread client base, Pega Systems was looking for experienced software engineers to cater to their business and technology needs and bring out

strategically reliable solutions.

The Hiring Challenge was aimed at finding the best talent in the following profiles• Associate Architect• Principle Software Engineer• Senior Software Engineer

The hackathon was designed keeping in mind the primary requirements of Pegasystems accordingly three di�erent programming challenges were designed.

Stockroom(HR Cubes) addressed the hiring problem of Pega by designing a tech hiring challenge tailored according to their needs.

The Pega Tech Hiring Challenge

VENUE

Building 12A, Vittal Rao Nagar, Hitech City, Hyderabad, Telangana 500081

A complex algorithm programming challenge which involved pairing up of the candidates with their Pega counterparts (so as to examine the work environment match of the candidate)

A complex architect design programming question was put out for the candidates, which was evaluated for its scalability.

A complex algorithm programming challenge which involved pairing up of the candidates with their Pega counterparts (so as to examine the work environment match of the candidate)

Associate Architect Challenge

Senior Software Engineer Challenge

Principle Software Engineer Challenge

The entire planning of the hackathon including the branding, selection of eligible candidates has been done in a short span of 3 weeks. (Stockroom takes a minimal bu�er time of 3 weeks before the hackathon)All the stockroom hackathons are only on an invite basis to ensure quality and interests of the company.

Planning

BrandingAfter thoroughly understanding and scrutinizing the requirements, challenges are posted on various social networking platforms such as Linkedin, Facebook, Twitter and other social media channels simultaneously mailing out the newsletters to our 20,000+ user base.

R E S U L T

Pega Systems hired 7 candidates (5 for Senior Soft-ware Engineer, 1 for Principle Software Engineer & 1 for Associate Architect) after assessing (based on) their performance in their hackathon. It was an easy pick for the Pega Systems as the candidates were invit-ed only after scrutinizing their profiles on various coding platforms.

G A L L E R Y

From the participants

G A L L E R Y

From the participantsThe stockroom standee

G A L L E R Y

From the participantsThe stockroom standee

The organising team