CodeSignal Skills Assessments
Validate skills with certified assessments
See what people can actually do with research-backed skills assessments for hiring, development, and everything in between.
The right assessment for every skill
Explore assessments built for hiring, development, and everything in between.
Technical assessments
See how candidates code, debug, and build in a real IDE, not just how they perform on a whiteboard.
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Business assessments
Evaluate candidates' job-relevant business skills across sales, marketing, finance, and other professional roles.
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Agentic assessments
See how candidates build with AI tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex, the way engineers actually work now.
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Behavioral assessments
Understand how people prefer to work and collaborate, so you can hire for team fit alongside skill.
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Make decisions on data, not gut feel
Reduce bias and choose the right candidates with confidence, backed by real skills data.
Prove your training actually works
Measure skill growth directly, so you can show real, measurable results from every learning program.
See where your team's skills stand
Pinpoint skills gaps and opportunities so you know exactly where to focus development or hiring.
Rigor behind every result
Job-relevant
Simulate real-world tasks and job requirements, like coding in an IDE, writing a customer email, or navigating a tough conversation.
Certified Assessments
Every assessment is built by subject matter experts and validated by I-O Psychologists, so you can trust the results.
Assess for all skills
Evaluate technical ability, agentic experitse, business skills, and behavioral fit in one platform, not multiple tools.
Deep skill insights
Get qualitative and quantitative insights on skill proficiency to identify strengths, skill gaps, and areas for growth.
Built-in cheating protection
Proctoring, ID verification, and plagiarism detection protect the integrity of every result.
Don't just take our word for it
An enterprise tech company reduced time-to-hire by replacing a technical phone screen with a CodeSignal skills assessment. This change saved them thousands of hours and improved hiring outcomes by 65%.
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Frequently asked
questions
What is a skills assessment?
A skills assessment is a structured evaluation that measures what someone can actually do, not what a resume or self-report claims. Organizations can use them across the employee lifecycle: screening job candidates, benchmarking a team’s current skill levels, or tracking how employees are developing over time.
How do online skills assessments or tests work?
An assessment presents job-relevant tasks or questions tied to the skills being measured, scores the responses automatically, and returns a report showing proficiency by skill area. The same underlying mechanism works whether it’s screening a candidate pool or benchmarking an existing team, what changes is who takes it and what decision the results inform.
How do skills assessments work in the hiring process?
An employer selects or builds an assessment for a specific role and sends it to candidates, usually early in the funnel, before a screener or first interview. Candidates complete it on their own time, responses are scored automatically, and the hiring team gets back a skills report to evaluate candidates against the same criteria instead of resume keywords or gut feel.
How do skills assessments help identify skills gaps across a workforce?
Instead of relying on course completions or self-reported confidence, which measure engagement, not ability, a skills assessment gives you an objective read on what employees can actually do right now. Run across a team or department, that baseline shows you where the real gaps are, so L&D investment goes toward the skills that are actually missing instead of a generic training calendar.
Do skills assessments reduce bias in hiring and promotion decisions?
Yes, when they’re built and validated correctly. Scoring everyone against the same job-relevant criteria reduces the influence of factors like where someone went to school, tenure, or how polished they seem in a conversation, whether that conversation is a hiring interview or an internal promotion discussion. An assessment is only as fair as its design, which is why validated, I-O psychologist–built assessments hold up better than a generic question bank.
Can skills assessments track how employees develop over time?
Yes. Run periodically rather than once, assessments show whether someone’s proficiency in a given skill area is actually improving, not just whether they completed a training module. That gives L&D and Talent Ops leaders the kind of evidence they need to prove program impact to the business, rather than relying on engagement metrics alone.