There is no universally accepted terminology within the industry for describing candidate evaluations. Below is how Coderbyte and other software vendors define assessments, interviews, and other types of evaluations:

Assessments
Challenge(s) and question(s) that a candidate answers asynchronously (i.e. independently), recorded within an online environment and/or unrecorded in their own environment and uploaded afterward, timed or untimed with or without a deadline, with automated and/or manual grading.

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On Coderbyte, assessments can include any of the following custom questions or those selected from our library:

• Algorithmic coding challenges (graded or ungraded)
• Project-based coding challenges (graded or ungraded)
• Spreadsheet challenges (graded or ungraded)
• Multiple choice questions (graded)
• Open-ended questions (ungraded)
• Video response (ungraded)
• Personality tests (graded)

On other tools, assessments are known alternatively as:

• HackerRank: Screening
• Codility: CodeCheck Test
• CodeSignal: Tech Screen
• Coderpad: Take-home project (or Assessments if you are using CodinGame)
• TestGorilla: Screening test

Interviews
Challenge(s), question(s), and interactive environments that a candidate answers collaboratively (i.e. with interviewers), using video/audio within an online environment, untimed, with a scorecard manually completed by interviewers afterward.

Read our best practices for interviews →

On Coderbyte, interviews can include any of the following custom or from our library:

• Algorithmic coding challenges
• Project-based coding challenges
• Spreadsheet challenges
• Templates with multiple questions preloaded
• Jupyter Notebooks
• Whiteboards
• VS Code
• Collaborative terminal

On other tools, interviews are known as:

• HackerRank: Interview
• Codility: CodeLive
• CodeSignal: Interview
• Coderpad: Pad

Coderbyte is primarily used for junior, mid, and senior technical roles across software development, data science, and analysts. However, Coderbyte is increasingly used to assess and interview candidates for other software-adjacent roles. See the following comprehensive list:

• Software Development: front-end, back-end, mobile, DevOps, database, QA
• Data Science & Analysis: data scientist, data engineer
• Design & Research: UX design, UX research, product management
• Sales & Marketing: SDR, marketing analyst, customer success
• Finance & Operations: Financial analyst, HR analyst
• Interpersonal Skills: culture, integrity, communication, writing

We do not publicly publish our library of thousands of challenges and questions, but you can see all available skills, languages, and technologies, along with a log of recent additions.

Coding challenges
We have 1,500+ coding challenges and project-based coding challenges, with more added or refreshed weekly.

Spreadsheet challenges
We have 100+ spreadsheet challenges, with more added or refreshed weekly.

Multiple choice questions
We have 10,000+ multiple choice questions, with more added or refreshed weekly.

Open-ended and video response questions
We have 10,000+ questions that can be answered via text or video, with more added or refreshed weekly.

Sample assessments
You can take a sample assessment here.

You can create your own coding challenges, multiple choice questions, open-ended questions, and video response questions. You can also import custom whiteboards and Jupyter Notebooks during interviews.

As a market leader in the candidate evaluation industry, Coderbyte takes its responsibilities seriously. We are audited continuously by Assurance Lab and our approach to test validation is rigorous in order to verify that Assessments are accurate and fair.

All customers have access to our comprehensive help center and support ticketing system. Our support hours are 9am ET - 9pm ET (GMT -5), 7 days per week, and our average response time is 1 hour. Customers on our Bundle plan also receive real-time chat support.

If you are not a customer, you can submit an inquiry here. However, due to substantial demand we encourage you to first consult our help center.

We host live expert demos every two weeks with Q&A. You can watch a recorded one or sign up for an upcoming one here.

Coderbyte offers customers the ultimate flexibility with multiple pricing options:

Self-Service Subscriptions (14-day free trial)
Our subscription includes unlimited candidates, admins, assessments, and interviews. Pricing begins at $199/mo with discounts for annual subscriptions and bundling add-ons. See pricing.

Enterprise Subscriptions
Combine our platform with dedicated account management, infosec review, and even more customization. Recommended for Fortune 2,000 and talent marketplaces. See pricing.

Limits
While you are able to invite unlimited candidates on a Coderbyte subscription, we do have some concurrency limits for performance reasons. Less than 0.1% of customers ever come close to hitting these limits.

Pay-per-candidate
For more limited hiring and features needs, you can sign up for a pay-per-candidate plan.

For self-service plans, payments must be made via credit card. Invoicing with multiple payment options and net terms are available on our enterprise plan.

Cheating can be a frustrating problem when trying to determine which candidates are unqualified. Whereas many of our competitors try to solve cheating by creating ruthless and invasive experiences that candidates hate and publicly complain about, we've innovated in a variety of unique and more effective ways:

Cheating prevention

• We are constantly added, refreshing, and changing our library of challenges and questions.
• Require 100% unique solutions with Coderbyte's cheat-proof technology. Cheat-proofing adds a unique modification to every challenge to ensure that the candidate must write a 100% unique solution that cannot be found online.
• Hide challenge titles so candidates can’t easily Google Search solutions
• Require video responses with webcam and audio.

Cheating detection

• Record the candidate’s entire screen for playback, and capture IP address and country
• Log and see everything a candidate Google searches for during a coding challenge
• Detect plagiarism from copied coding solutions
• Detect ChatGPT/AI usage for coding solutions and open-ended answers
• Webcam verification and proctoring to ensure a candidate is who they say they are and can explain their own code

Overall, Coderbyte is more affordable, has a better candidate experience, and offers assessments and interviews for more types of roles and skills than any other solution. You can find a feature by feature comparison here.

See our API docs here.

Coderbyte offers official native integrations with the following Applicant Tracking Systems:

• Workable
• Greenhouse
• Lever
• SmartRecruiters
• Ashby
• Growhire
• Other ATS solutions upon request

Coderbyte also has an app on Zapier, with which you can integrate the following Applicant Tracking Systems:

• Recruitee
• Teamtailor
• Bullhorn
• Personio
• Zoho Recruit

As the leading candidate evaluation platform trusted by 3,000 organizations, Coderbyte of course takes data security and privacy seriously. We work with a leading firm, Eden Data, to develop best-in-class compliance, privacy, and security programs.

We are audited by Assurance Lab. You can view our full SOC 2 Type 2 report and see a list of our policies in our Trust Center.

We comply with major global privacy standards, including the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Coderbyte has implemented numerous privacy and security practices to ensure we are fully compliant with GDPR and provide product functionality that enables our customers to remain compliant.

We can provide hands-on Information Security review support for Enterprise customers. There is a surcharge for self-service customers that require our assistance.