Pre Hire Assessment Test: Streamline Developer Hiring with Data-Driven Technical Evaluations

Reduce time-to-hire by 50% and improve quality of hire by 70% with comprehensive pre-employment screening that accurately evaluates developer skills and coding abilities.

30,000+ recruiters and hiring Managers across 1000+ businesses grow their tech teams with HackerEarth
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What is the Pre-Hire Assessment Test?

  • Comprehensive technical skills evaluation platform designed specifically for developer hiring
  • AI-powered assessment engine with 10,000+ pre-built coding questions across 20+ programming languages
  • Real-time code execution environment with anti-cheating measures and proctoring capabilities
  • Multi-measure assessment combining technical skills, cognitive ability, and problem-solving scenarios
  • Seamless integration with 50+ ATS platforms and existing HR workflows

Why Use Pre-Hire Assessment Test

Skills & Competencies Assessed for the Pre-Hire Assessment Test

Who is The Pre-Hire Assessment Test For?

Customize the Pre-Hire Assessment Test

Role-Specific Customization

Tailor the test content to match the exact technical skills needed for your team. For example, prioritize backend development skills for backend developers, front-end frameworks for UI developers, or system architecture and scalability for senior roles. Customizing question banks ensures the assessment aligns with real-world job requirements.

Competency Weighting

Adjust scoring to emphasize the most important skills for the role, whether it’s programming proficiency, system design, or problem-solving ability. You can configure the test to reflect the balance of competencies required for success in your team, ensuring the right candidates are identified.

Branding and Styling

Customize the candidate experience with your company’s logo, colors, and tone. This ensures a seamless, branded experience from the moment candidates start the test, reinforcing your company’s identity throughout the evaluation process.

Pair The Pre-Hire Assessment Test With…

Advanced Hiring Features

Why choose HackerEarth’s assessment platform?

HackerEarth’s online coding platform simplifies developer skill assessment with customizable tests, a vast question library, and
automated evaluations, ensuring efficient and objective hiring.

25,000+ questions across 1000+ skills at your disposal

Thanks to a rich library of questions, including emerging AI skills, HackerEarth Assessments enable you to create highly accurate coding assessments for all roles. You can also create custom questions, or we can create it for you, to handle any kind of assessment that you may need.

Project type questions to simulate on- the-job problems

When hiring developers for your projects, you need more than just conceptual knowledge—you need problem solvers. Can they tackle real-world challenges? With HackerEarth, you can create project-based questions with custom datasets and test cases to assess their true capabilities.
Track

Industry's best proctoring solution with automated invigilation

HackerEarth Assessments offer the industry's best proctoring capabilities with SmartBrowser technology, eliminating impersonation with advanced image processing. Our coding assessments detect tab switching, prevent copy-pasting, and let you customize proctoring stringency—ensuring a fair, secure, and cheat-proof evaluation process.
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An experience that hiring managers like and developers love

With the ability to code in 40+ programming languages, a real-time code editor and integration with Jupyter Notebooks, HackerEarth Assessments is highly dev-friendly.

Detailed reports on each candidate’s performance

With insight-rich reports on a developer’s performance and the code replay feature, HackerEarth lets you get a deeper insight into a candidate’s capabilities.
Impact

Data-driven insights to help finetune the hiring funnel

The HackerEarth Assessments dashboard gives you a deeper analysis of your hiring funnel, enabling you to constantly improve your coding tests and create an industry-leading hiring process.
achievements

A coding assessment platform that is built for enterprises and loved by everyone

HackerEarth offers industry-leading compliance, security and scalability, so you can build a tech team with no
worries, regardless of the size of your organization.
Testimonials

What our clients are saying

Hundreds of reviews showcase why companies worldwide trust HackerEarth to transform their tech hiring and build exceptional teams.
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Ananya U.
Ananya U Review
Helped us in better screening at the start of the hiring process;thus helping our internal team to interview the best of best folks and fastracking the closure rates of tech hirings.Also the support team has been one of our actual backbone while setting things up.
Neithan C.
Neithan C Review
I have used HackerEarth starting 2013. This was during a time that codeforces, kattis, codechef, l33tcode and similar online judges were the rave of all programmers who would want to develop their programming portfolio.
Ritheesh G.
Ritheesh G Review
I think one of the best part about HackerEarth is the versatility of the type of questions and the user interface. There are coding execution questions, Descriptive questions, MCQs, etc.
Neeraj K.
Neeraj K Review on developer assessment platform
I was given the hackerearth assesments by various companies as the first round of shortlisting and it has questions related to different proogramming languages like SQL and Python and also had few MCQ.
Lava Kumar G.
Lava kumar Review on developer assessment platform
In hacker earth assessments there are many featuers like light and dark mode which is comfortable during the assessments and also there is the autocomplete feature which is really helpful when completing code as it helps in avoiding errors and saving time helping the user to focus more on the logic as it is to be.
Juned T.
Juned T Review on developer assessment platform
HackerEarth Assessments is the glitch-free interface and access mode, with the IDLE being a lifesaver. The portal is easily accessible, supported by an efficient guide. Unlike other platforms, there are no lagging issues, and the smooth user experience stands out.
Srivishnu M.
Srivishnu M Review on developer assessment platform
The best part of hackerEarth s its easy to use interface, often we students get overwhelmed when attending the online assesment and this user interface helps us calm down and focus on the problem better, Moreover the customer support of hackerEarth is really good and easily approachable.
Ramanathan A.
Ramanathan A Review on developer assessment platform
HackerEarth Assessments excel in simplicity, both in use and implementation. The intuitive interface ensures a seamless experience, complemented by responsive customer support. The frequency of use is flexible, and the platform's rich features cater to diverse needs. Integration is a breeze, making it a top choice for hassle-free coding assessments.
Anand B.
Anand B Review on developer assessment platform
HackerEarth has Vast poll of Coding problems is very user frendly to setup a AssessmentsThey have a detailed reporting tooIts hlep us a lot in Campus hiring as it has randomizing the question
Brothin D.
Brothin D Review on developer assessment platform
HackerEarth is a great platform for online job assessments. The best thing that I like about it the most is that all the exams conducted on HackerEarth are full proctored and it takes various parameters into account while attending assessment like video, audio, tab switching etc. which makes hiring process a lot better and smoother.Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Manish S.
Manish S Review on developer assessment platform
HackerEarth assessments are tricky and well documented. They have clarity which provides an edge for the developer to code efficiently.
Umair N.
Umair N Review on developer assessment platform
The Interface and access mode is glitch free IDLE is a lifesaver on Hacker Earth. The users easily access the portal and the support guide is also very efficient. There isn't any lagging issue and smoothness is also a key to keep in mind if it's on Hacker Earth.Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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FAQs about Pre-Hire Assessment Test

How long do candidates spend on assessments?

Most technical assessments take 30-90 minutes depending on complexity. Our platform shows clear time expectations upfront and includes progress indicators to keep candidates engaged throughout the process.

What if candidates don't have the technical setup required?

Our assessments work on any device with a web browser - no special software installation required. We also provide offline capabilities and mobile optimization for maximum accessibility.

How do you prevent cheating during remote assessments?

 We use AI-powered proctoring, webcam monitoring, screen recording, and plagiarism detection. Our system flags suspicious behavior and provides detailed integrity reports for each candidate.

Can this integrate with our existing ATS system?

Yes, we offer pre-built integrations with 50+ ATS platforms including Greenhouse, Lever, and Workday. Custom integrations are also available through our robust API.

How accurate are the assessment results for predicting job performance?

Our assessments show 85% correlation with actual job performance based on validation studies. We continuously refine our algorithms using machine learning and performance data from thousands of hires.

What support do you provide during implementation?

Every customer gets dedicated onboarding support, training sessions for your team, and ongoing customer success management. Enterprise clients receive priority support with <24 hour response times.

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