Stop Spending Engineer Time onCandidates Who Can't Code
Filter software engineering candidates on real coding ability before you spend interview time on them. TestHike gives engineering hiring teams a graded, desktop-secure coding assessment built around your own stack.
Every Unscreened Live Interview Costs You a Senior Engineer's Hour
A resume can't tell you if someone can actually write working code. So teams put a live coding round early in the process — and every candidate who can't clear it still consumes a senior engineer's interview slot to find that out. Multiply that by a busy hiring quarter, and it's a meaningful chunk of your best engineers' time spent screening, not building.
TestHike moves that filter earlier and makes it asynchronous. Candidates complete a graded coding assessment on their own time, in a real programming environment. Only the ones who clear your bar reach a live interview — where your team's time goes toward evaluating judgment and fit, not basic syntax.
- Screen before scheduling any live interview time
- Consistent bar, not dependent on which engineer is interviewing
- Candidates complete it asynchronously, in any timezone
- Graded automatically — no manual test-running by your team
Set the Bar Once, Apply It to Every Candidate
Build the Assessment Around Your Stack
Write coding tasks in your actual languages and frameworks, or start from the ready-made question library and adjust from there.
Custom or librarySend an Invite Code
Candidates get a short invite code by email, download the free desktop app, and start whenever suits them within the window you set.
No scheduling neededReview a Scored Result
Test results, code, and activity information land in your dashboard the moment a candidate submits — ready to compare across every applicant.
Instant for coding questionsMore Signal Than a Browser Take-Home Test
Browser-based take-home tests are easy to open, but a browser tab has almost no visibility into the rest of a candidate's machine. TestHike runs the assessment through a downloaded desktop app instead, which gives your team real programming environments and configurable activity information — focus changes, clipboard use, connected displays, and running processes — alongside every graded result.
Every submission is also checksummed and tied to a device fingerprint, so if a result is ever disputed, there's a verifiable trail behind it.
- Real language environments, not a browser interpreter
- Configurable activity information during the session
- Checksum and device fingerprint on every submission
- Works through a dropped connection with local auto-save
Questions From Engineering Hiring Teams
Where does TestHike fit in an engineering hiring pipeline?
Most engineering teams use TestHike right after resume screening and before the first live interview — as a filter that confirms basic-to-intermediate coding ability before anyone's calendar gets involved.
Can we build assessments around our own tech stack?
Yes. You can write custom coding tasks around your actual codebase, frameworks, and engineering standards, or use the ready-made question library, or combine both in the same assessment.
Who reviews the results — do engineers have to grade every submission?
Coding and multiple-choice questions are graded automatically. Only written or open-ended questions need a human reviewer, and only those specific answers — not the whole submission.
How much engineering time does setting up TestHike take?
Most teams get a first assessment running the same day using the ready-made question library, then refine it with custom tasks as time allows. It doesn't require a dedicated engineering project to start.
Does TestHike replace our technical interview entirely?
For most teams, no — it replaces an early live coding screen. A later conversation-based interview for system design and team fit still typically follows once the coding bar is confirmed.
Protect Your Engineering Team's Interview Time
See how quickly a scored, desktop-secure coding assessment fits into your existing hiring pipeline.