Text-based questions
A free-text rich-text response. Reviewer-scored using your rubric. Best for design rounds and trade-off reasoning.
Text-based (the backend type is text) renders a rich-text editor for the candidate. They type a free-form answer, optionally with code blocks. Reviewers score it later against the rubric you wrote.
When to use#
- Design questions: "How would you shard a 5TB Postgres table?"
- Trade-off explanations: "Compare gRPC vs REST for an internal API."
- Post-mortem narratives: "Walk through an incident you've shipped a fix for."
Form fields#
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Question Namerequired | Short title. | |
| Question Bodyrequired | The prompt. Rich text + code blocks supported. | |
| Difficulty | enum | Easy / Medium / Hard / Expert. |
| Time | minutes | Estimated time per candidate. |
The candidate-side panel for this type reads "Free-text response · Candidates will type their answer in a rich-text editor. You can review and score it manually after submission."
How review works#
Text answers are not auto-graded. The reviewer panel shows the full submission and a manual score field; whatever score you write counts toward the total.