Africa Code Academy: How TestTrick Helped Transform Campus Hiring

Hiring fresh graduates from universities can be both exciting and overwhelming, especially when managing multiple campuses and hundreds of applicants. Africa Code Academy understood the importance of identifying the right developer talent early on. However, their traditional hiring process was slow, manual, and often inconsistent. That’s when they turned to TestTrick—and the result was a much faster and more effective approach to campus recruitment.

About Africa Code Academy

Africa Code Academy is one of the leading tech training institutes in Africa. Known for its rigorous bootcamps, the academy prepares aspiring developers for careers in software engineering, data science, and cloud computing. Beyond training, they also assist graduates in securing placements with top hiring partners and recruit developers for internal projects. Each year, Africa Code Academy runs university hiring drives to onboard fresh developer talent into their programs. As the scale of these drives grew, the need for a modern and scalable hiring solution became critical. Every year, they conduct university hiring drives to bring fresh developer talent into their programs and projects. As these efforts scaled, they needed a modern solution to manage hiring efficiently.

The Challenge

Campus recruiting was central to their talent acquisition strategy, but it brought its own set of challenges. The team had to manage a high volume of applicants from several universities, making it difficult to screen candidates efficiently and consistently.

Manual screening processes—such as reviewing resumes and conducting early interviews—consumed a lot of time and created bottlenecks. Moreover, the absence of standardized assessments meant evaluations varied widely, making it hard to fairly compare candidates across campuses. Soft skills like critical thinking and problem-solving were hard to gauge from resumes alone. And with short campus recruitment windows, the pressure to move quickly without compromising quality was a constant challenge.

Our Solution

To address these pain points, Africa Code Academy adopted TestTrick as their campus hiring platform.

They began by leveraging TestTrick’s pre-built assessments, which they customized to evaluate candidates on programming fundamentals, logic, and real-world coding skills. This brought consistency and objectivity to the evaluation process, allowing every candidate to be assessed on the same criteria.

Fairness and integrity were also ensured through TestTrick’s built-in plagiarism detection tools. The system automatically flagged suspicious patterns and copied responses, giving recruiters confidence in the authenticity of each candidate’s performance.

All of this was managed through a centralized dashboard, which made it easy to track candidate progress, compare results, and collaborate with team members across locations. What was once a scattered and time-consuming process was now streamlined and data-driven.

The Results

The results were impressive. Screening time dropped by over 80%, allowing the team to move from hundreds of applicants to a refined shortlist within days.

Candidate quality also improved. There was a noticeable match between assessment results and performance in technical rounds and on-the-job tasks, giving the team more confidence in their hires.

With the help of TestTrick, Africa Code Academy expanded its recruitment drive across five universities, giving them access to a broader and more diverse pool of candidates. In one round alone, they successfully hired over 20 developers, many of whom went on to perform strongly in both internal projects and partner placements.

"TestTrick helped us identify real talent faster. The structure, speed, and fairness of the process made our campus hiring much more efficient."

Ntokozo Moyo

Program Manager

Africa Code Academy

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