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Every industry has its own myths, and one often-heard claim in the tech sector is that there's a shortage of programmers and workers with STEM skills.

Good programmers are hard to find and although this might differ from region to region – in the US, for instance, some say there's a problem of abundance rather than scarcity of professionals – it's true that finding the perfect match for a certain technical role is often a time-consuming, convoluted task.

Founded in 2014, Moroccan startup Scorify tests the technical abilities of developers in order to connect recruiters and companies with the best candidates.

“My cofounder, Naoufal Chama was a R&D; director in IT international company. Each time he wanted to hire some software developers, he lost a lot of time for CV screening and make the classical interview. Sometimes, for technical assessments, he needed to pick an expert from the product line to supervise the interview,” Scorify CTO Diaa Alhak El Fallous told Wamda.

Both came together with the idea to automate the whole recruiting process. It would allow programmers to test their skills through an online assessment that would also assign them a score at the end of their performance.