Someone sent you an assessment
Here is everything, before you decide whether to do it. A twelve-situation questionnaire about a product that does not exist, scored against five published criteria. You sit it once — if another company asks for the same assessment, you do not repeat it.
Before anything else
What this is not
Not unpaid work. The company in the case is invented. There is no real product, no real client and nothing anyone could ship. If a company ever sends you an “assessment” that is really their roadmap, that is a different thing, and you should say no.
Not a weekend. About fifteen minutes, nothing to prepare and nothing to produce. You choose when to start, within five days.
Not a portfolio review. Visual polish scores zero. Sketch on paper if you like. We are reading your reasoning, not your Figma file.
Not an ambush. You see the criteria before you begin. They are right below.
What is scored
The six capabilities, published
We publish these because an assessment you cannot understand is not fair. Knowing what is measured does not let you fake it — you still have to do it.
- Spots when the brief is wrong
- Asks what a request is meant to fix instead of building it.
- Knows what the data supports
- And what it does not. Says so out loud.
- Sweats states and edge cases
- Empty, error, loading, and the boring ones.
- Knows what is cheap to build
- And what will cost a quarter.
- Explains decisions outside the team
- To sales, to support, to a founder.
- Holds a position with a senior stakeholder
- Without either caving or digging in.
- Moves without being told
- Picks up the thing nobody owns.
- Keeps going when the plan changes
- Has a second idea when the first is ruled out.
How to do well
Three things that actually move your score
Use the numbers in front of you
The single biggest difference between a 40 and an 80 is whether the answer cites the specific data in the case. An answer that would fit any other company scores badly on purpose.
Write like a Slack message to your PM
Not like a case study. Polished, rounded prose scores worse than short, concrete sentences. Nobody is marking your writing style.
Say so if the brief is wrong
It usually is. Pushing back on a badly framed request is not insubordination here — it is one of the five things being measured, and the heaviest one.
You only do this once
Not once per company
If another company using uxerhub asks you for the same assessment within six months, you do not sit it again. They see the result; you do nothing.
That is the trade for your fifteen minutes: not another hoop per employer, but one that replaces several. Your result goes only to the company that invited you — never to anyone you have not applied to.
Questions candidates ask
No. The company in the case does not exist. It is a fictional product with fictional data, and nothing you write can be used by anyone — there is nothing to use. If an assessment ever asks you to work on the hiring company's real product, that is a different thing and you are right to refuse it.
About fifteen minutes. Twelve situations, each with four options, where you mark what you would do first and what you would never do. There is no countdown and nothing to prepare or produce — but do read them, because how long each one takes is recorded, and answering without reading is the one thing that invalidates a result.
You can, and it will help you very little. There is nothing to write and nothing to polish — every option is already there, and all four are things a competent person might do. A model cannot know which of them you would actually reach for first, and that is the whole measurement. Answer as you would, not as you think we want.
By arithmetic. There is no person grading you and no language model reading your answers — the same twelve situations scored the same way for everyone, which is why the result exists the moment you submit. You can ask for a human to review it at any point, without giving a reason and with no effect on your application.
Only the company that invited you. Nothing is public. You do not appear in any directory, there is no ranking, and we never sell your results or share them with another company without your explicit permission.
Not automatically. The result goes to the company that invited you, and it is scored against the specific role they described — out of that context the numbers would mislead more than they inform. You can request a copy of everything we hold about you, including your result, at any time, and we will send it within a month.
Yes, at any time, and we will confirm it. You can also request a copy of everything we hold about you. Details are on the data processing page.
Your rights
A score about you should never be a black box
- The report is a decision aid. The company decides, not us, and we say so in the report itself.
- You can request a human review of your result, and a person will look at it.
- You can ask for a copy of everything we hold about you, including your result.
- You can have it all deleted, and we confirm when it is done.
- Your results are never sold, and never shared with another company without your explicit permission.
Still deciding? Read how the case is built and scored. If something about the assessment seems unfair to you, write to us — the rubric changes when someone makes a good argument.