Someone sent you an assessment
Here’s everything you need before you decide whether to do it. It’s about fifteen minutes of work situations at a company that doesn’t exist, with no right or wrong answers. The company sees how close your profile is to the one they described. You sit it once: if another company asks for the same assessment, you don’t repeat it.
Before anything else
What this isn’t
Not unpaid work. The company in the case is invented. There’s no actual product or client, and nothing anyone could ship. If a company ever sends you an “assessment” that’s their roadmap in disguise, that’s 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 doesn’t come into it, and neither does your Figma file. What matters is how you’d approach the situation.
Not an ambush. You see the criteria before you begin. They are right below.
What it looks at
How you decide when the work gets messy
Nothing here checks what you’ve memorised or how polished your portfolio is. It looks at the calls you make under pressure, which is what a good lead watches for in your first few months.
Questioning the brief
Whether you ask what a request is for before you build it.
Reading the evidence
What you conclude from the information in front of you, and what you don't.
Weighing the cost
What you choose to do now, later or never when time is short.
Working with people
How you handle a stakeholder, a teammate or a plan that changes.
How to do well
Three things worth knowing
01 / 03
Read each situation properly
The details matter. Answer for the company in front of you rather than a generic one. Nothing is timed, so there's no reason to rush.
02 / 03
Answer as you would at work
Pick what you'd do on a normal Tuesday. There's no trick option to spot, and nobody is marking your writing style.
03 / 03
There's no profile to aim for
Different teams look for different people. The most useful answer is the one you'd actually give, because that's what tells you whether the team suits you too.
You only do this once
One sitting covers the next six months
If another company using uxerhub asks you for the same assessment within six months, you don’t sit it again. They see the result and you don’t have to do anything.
That’s the trade for your fifteen minutes: one hoop that replaces several. Your result goes only to the company that invited you, and never to anyone you haven’t applied to.
Questions candidates ask
No. The company in the case doesn't exist. It's a fictional product with fictional data, so nothing you write can be used by anyone. If an assessment ever asks you to work on the hiring company's real product, that's a different thing and you're right to refuse it.
About fifteen minutes: twelve short situations from the day-to-day work of the role. There's no countdown and nothing to prepare or produce. Read each one properly and answer as you would at work.
You can, and it'll help you very little. There's nothing to write and nothing to polish, and a model can't know what you would do. Answer the way you'd act at work.
Automatically, and the same way for everyone who applies to that role, 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 don't appear in any directory, there's 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's read against the profile they described. Out of that context it would mislead more than it informs. You can request a copy of everything we hold about you, including your result, at any time, and we'll send it within a month.
Yes, at any time, and we'll confirm it. You can also request a copy of everything we hold about you. Details are on the data processing page.
Your rights
A result about you should never be a black box
- The report is a decision aid. The company makes the decision, 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's done.
- Your results are never sold, and never shared with another company without your explicit permission.
Still deciding? Read how it works. If something about the assessment seems unfair to you, write to us. We change the process when someone makes a good argument.