Case Study: S Media Link achieves 100+ engineer promotions in 1 year with Codility

How S Media Link Used Codility to Promote 100+ Developers in 1 Year

S Media Link, an information technology and services company that builds and supports web, iOS, and Android apps, faced a hiring challenge: they recruit from regions rich in junior graduates but short on experienced talent, and with a lean people ops team needed a fair, scalable way to hire and promote engineers. To address this, S Media Link adopted Codility programmer assessments to make technical hiring more efficient and create a consistent, skill-based promotion process.

Using Codility, S Media Link built custom algorithmic and coding tasks, set score thresholds (45% for junior roles, 80% for senior), and used submitted code to deepen onsite interviews and power a twelve-level promotion track. The Codility solution helped S Media Link decrease hiring costs by 18%, reduce time-to-hire by 21%, filter out 92% of internship applicants, and promote over 100 engineers in one year.

S Media Link

Maria Chenovarian

HR Manager