Hire Engineers Well,Without a Recruiting Team
Hire engineers fast and lean without a dedicated technical recruiting team. TestHike gives startups a ready-to-use coding assessment, automatic grading, and results founders and early hires can trust.
Every Wrong Engineering Hire Costs More When You're Small
At a 10-person company, a bad engineering hire isn't just a performance problem — it's a meaningful chunk of your runway and your founders' time spent managing it out. Most early-stage teams don't have a dedicated technical recruiter, so hiring decisions often rest on a founder's gut read from a single conversation.
TestHike gives you an objective read before that conversation even happens: a graded coding assessment that tells you whether a candidate can actually do the work, built from a ready-made question library so you don't need to write it yourself.
- Ready-made question library — no assessment-writing expertise needed
- Scored results readable without a technical background
- Same platform scales with you as hiring volume grows
- No dedicated recruiting headcount required to run it
From Zero to a Working Assessment in an Afternoon
Start From the Question Library
Pick coding and multiple-choice questions that match the role, or write your own if you already know exactly what you want to test.
No setup expertise neededSend an Invite Code
Candidates get a short code, download the free desktop app, and complete the assessment on their own schedule.
One emailGet a Result You Can Trust
A scored, weighted result lands in your dashboard, with activity information if you want to double-check anything before deciding.
No code review neededQuestions From Founders and Early Hiring Teams
We don't have a technical recruiter — can we still use TestHike?
Yes. TestHike's scored results are designed to be read without a technical background — a percentage score, a pass bar you set, and plain-language activity information if you need to double-check anything.
How fast can we get an assessment running?
Most teams have a first assessment live the same day using the ready-made question library. Custom tasks around your own stack can be added once you have time.
Is TestHike affordable for a small team?
Pricing scales with assessment volume, so a small team sending a handful of assessments a month pays for a small team's usage. See the Pricing page for details.
Can our first engineering hire help write the assessment questions?
Yes. Any team member with dashboard access can write custom coding tasks around your actual codebase and standards, or use the built-in question library as a starting point.
Do candidates need to install anything complicated?
No. Candidates download a free desktop app and enter a short invite code — no account, no configuration on their end.
Make Your Next Engineering Hire With Confidence
Get a working assessment set up today and see a real result before your next candidate conversation.