Internal Pair Programming SOP – Yours to Steal.

Our Internal Hiring SOP: Pair Programming Evaluation Process

Discover how we spot A+ developers before we hire them with our internal pair programming SOP—shared with you.

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Built to help CTOs, founders, and engineering leads run fast, fair, real-time hiring interviews that cut through the noise.

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The exact system we use at Cloud Employee to identify world-class engineers for ourselves and our clients.

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Tested across 100's of hires. Now yours.

Internal Pair Programming SOP – Yours to Steal.
In this download you’ll get

A <60-minute pair programming checklist to run live coding sessions

A scoring rubric that turns gut feel into objective signal

The exact questions, tasks, and scripts we use

Why CVs, take-home tests, and LeetCode are no longer enough

Our post-interview ChatGPT scoring prompts that save hours

Designed by, and for, CTOs and developers.

Used in 500+ dev interviews

Cut hiring time by 60%

97% retention rate over 2 years

Used in 500+ dev interviews
Cut hiring time by 60%
97% retention rate over 2 years
Why It Works

We've Interview 1000's of devs, this process provides actionable insights before hiring.

Resumes lie. Take-home tests get gamed. This process gives you what matters: live, observable problem-solving in action.

A live look at how a dev thinks, builds, and communicates

A structure to eliminate bias and guesswork

A process that reflects how modern teams actually work—collaborative, async-friendly, real-time

Don’t just take our word for it

The Best Companies Source Talent with Cloud Employee

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"We spent four months trying to hire in the US. We engaged Cloud Employee and had two full-time developers in Argentina onboarded in one week.

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The guys have been working with us for two years and we're now up to a team of six."

Mark Whitfield
Managing Director
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"Seb and the team take great care of their staff, and you can see their focus on development and quality in the candidates they present to you. They're a reliable resourcing partner who genuinely understand the nuances of good staff augmentation."

Dennis Gorya
Founder, Partner & CEO
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"Our new developers were able to hit the ground running, we've worked with them for over two years now, and they are truly part of our team."

Alison Whittle
Product Delivery Manager
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"Working with Cloud Employee developers is great, because they're not afraid to push back. They're proactive, they're positive, and they feel like part of our team."

Doran Eskinazi
Head of Engineering
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"Working with Michael, our developer from Cloud Employee, is great - he's dedicated and very skilled. Michael's embedded right into our team, really fits into our working culture, and we just wish he lived closer so we could have him in office from time to time!"

Richard Hall
Director

Did You Know?

While only 10% of developers look at job boards, 80% are open to new roles?

6 out of 10 developers leave a company in the first year?

Hiring the wrong person can cost up to $240,000, according to the US Department of Labor?