Newbee: Streamlining Technical Interview Rounds
Industry
Recruitment
Client
Palo IT
Platforms
Web
Date
2018
CASE STUDY BRIEF
Capability
Internal tools, candidate experience, workflow design
Leadership level
Director
What I led
Designed Newbee, an internal Palo IT hiring product that gave candidates a clear technical brief and gave reviewers one place to examine assignments and presentation material.
Why it matters
Replaced a scattered interview round with one structured handoff from brief to submission, review, and presentation.
DECISION RECORD
Problem and stakes
Technical interview material was split across emails, assignments, reviewer notes, and presentation sessions, creating ambiguity for candidates and inconsistent context for reviewers.
Role and scope
Designed the internal product across the candidate journey, task brief, submission, reviewer workspace, and presentation handoff.
Key decision and trade-off
Created one shared workflow for candidates and reviewers rather than adding another coordination layer to the existing process.
Systems and artifacts
Candidate brief, assignment-submission flow, reviewer workspace, presentation handoff, and interview-round interaction patterns.
Related content
The broken handoff
Candidates received technical tasks through one channel, reviewers gathered context in another, and presentation material arrived separately. Both sides spent time reconstructing what was expected and what should be evaluated.
The product decision
I designed one workflow around the interview round itself: a clear brief for the candidate, a submission path, a shared reviewer view, and a handoff into the presentation discussion.
What changed
Newbee gave candidates and reviewers the same task context and kept the assignment, review material, and presentation together. The source supports the workflow improvement, not a claim about hiring conversion or quality.
