Send a candidate an assessment

Pick a ready SQL or API assessment - or write your own - and send it from the application; it is graded by running the answers, never by AI.

In short

An assessment checks a skill the same way for every candidate. The assessment library holds {{brand}}'s ready SQL and API assessments and your team's own. Send one from a candidate's application: they read a notice first, and the clock starts only when they press Start. Answers are graded by running them - never by AI.

Before you start

Who: the people who manage hiring send assessments.
Plan: assessments are part of Jobs. Work samples have a monthly count of their own (see /help/jobs/hire-by-real-work).
First: for your own assessment, prepare the sample data and the answers.

Steps

Open the applicant and choose to send an assessment.
Under "Assessment", choose one from "{{brand}}" or "Your own".
Press "Send assessment".

Open Jobs › Hiring, choose "More" and then "Assessments" (the "Assessment library").
Press "Write an assessment". It opens as a page of its own; choose the "Kind": SQL or API, and press "Save" in the title row when it is ready.
Fill in "Title", "What it covers", "Time limit (minutes)" and "Pass mark (%)".
For SQL, give the "Sample data"; for each task, "What to do" and "The answer" (it is run on the sample data before saving). For API, give "Checks the response must pass".
Press "Add a task" for more, then save.

Result: the candidate gets a link. Their result - tasks passed and the time taken - shows on their application.

Good to know

Each card in the library shows its facts, such as "6 tasks · 45 minutes · pass mark 70%".
A ready assessment can verify a skill on the candidate's profile; your own never does.
A candidate takes it once, before its deadline. They can ask for another format or more time through the notice.
Deleting an assessment leaves candidates already taking it their attempt.
To judge real work instead of answers, see /help/jobs/hire-by-real-work.
A candidate's assessment result has a "Download" menu with Excel and PDF: counts and pass marks only, never the answers.

If something goes wrong

"No assessments to send" - none of the ready ones can run here yet, and your organization has none of its own; write one.
"Give it a title and complete every task."