Send a take-home assignment

A take-home assignment is async. The candidate works on their own time; you review the replay. Right tool for high-volume screening rounds and timezone-spread teams.

Take-home vs live, in one paragraph#

In a take-home assignment, the candidate gets a private workspace, does the work whenever fits their schedule, and submits when they're ready. You review the replay afterwards.

Lower the cost of a 'no'

Take-homes scale because they cut interviewer time per candidate to about 15 minutes of replay review. That lets you give more candidates a fair shot at the same headcount budget.

When to use a take-home assignment#

High-volume screening: more candidates than interviewer hours. Hand them a take-home, review asynchronously.
Junior or mid-level roles where you can score from artifacts alone (commits, terminal output, the final state of the repo) without needing the back-and-forth of a live session.
Timezone-spread teams where scheduling a synchronous slot is painful or unfair to candidates working off-hours.
"Show your work" assignments for senior roles: a deliberately open-ended take-home that you discuss together later in a follow-up live round.

Send the invite#

Open the role, hit + on the candidate row, pick mode Take-home assignment, and set a window during which the candidate can start. For example, "anytime between Monday 9am and Friday 5pm in their timezone, 90 minutes once started."

Candidate experience#

They open the link
The candidate sees your logo, the role title, the rules, and a big green Start now button. The clock does not start until they click it.
They work
The workspace boots, the questions appear in the left panel, and the countdown clock runs in the corner.
They submit
When done, they click Submit and see a confirmation page. The workspace stops; the recording goes into your review queue.

Preview mode#

Before sending to a real candidate, click Preview as candidate on the role page. You will get the full candidate experience without burning a real interview slot, and the recording will not be saved.