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TestHike is a desktop coding assessment platform. It helps companies, universities, and training teams evaluate programming skills using real coding environments, automated grading, and assessment integrity information without needing anyone on the review side to read code.

A coding assessment platform is software that lets organizations test a candidate's or student's programming ability by having them solve a real coding task, then automatically scoring the result. It replaces guesswork with an actual, gradable sample of work.

Yes. TestHike, Test Hike, and Test Hike Assessment all refer to the same coding assessment platform.

A browser coding test runs inside a web tab, which is easy to open but easy to leave switch tabs, paste in an answer, ask someone else to finish it. TestHike runs through a downloaded desktop application, which gives your team a clearer, more complete picture of how the work was actually done.

TestHike records selected activity information during a test focus changes, clipboard use, connected displays, and running processes. These are signals for a human reviewer to look at, not an automatic "cheating" verdict. You decide what they mean for a given candidate.

No. A candidate downloads the free TestHike desktop app and enters the invite code from their assessment email. There's no sign-up, password, or account to manage on the candidate side.

Yes. Candidates install the free TestHike desktop application before starting an assessment. That installation is what makes real programming environments and the added visibility into the assessment session possible in the first place.

TestHike runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux, with 20 configured programming language environments including Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, C++, Go, Rust, and Ruby.

Yes. If a candidate's connection drops mid-assessment, TestHike keeps the test running, saves progress locally in an encrypted database, and syncs it back automatically once the connection returns no work is lost.

Yes. You can build coding tasks around your own tech stack and engineering standards, or use ready-made questions from the built-in library. Each question can also be a multiple-choice or written question, not only code.

Each question in an assessment is given a weight that you set, and every assessment's weights must add up to 100%. Coding questions are scored by the share of test cases that pass; multiple-choice questions are scored right or wrong; written questions are scored by a reviewer. The final result is the weighted total.

In most cases, yes the desktop app doesn't require kernel-level access. IT teams in locked-down environments with strict application allow-listing may need to approve the TestHike installer ahead of time.

A mock assessment is a practice run: it shows correct answers immediately after completion, isn't scored toward a final result, and doesn't use the desktop security controls. A real assessment is fully scored, uses the full activity-monitoring and integrity feature set, and produces a result your team reviews.

Yes. Organizations can offer a mock assessment first so candidates know what to expect from the desktop app before it counts.

Not today. TestHike is built for asynchronous, proctored assessments that candidates complete on their own schedule within a window you set, rather than a live video-call interview format.

Progress is saved locally to an encrypted database roughly every 10 seconds. If the app or the machine crashes, the candidate can reopen TestHike and resume from the last save point instead of starting over.

Universities and bootcamps use TestHike to run programming exams and lab tests in a controlled desktop session, with every submission automatically graded against test cases and reviewable in one dashboard without deploying kernel-level lockdown software to student machines.

Yes. Because assessments are asynchronous and grading is automatic, TestHike is built to handle large batches of candidates or students on a fixed schedule without adding manual review work for every submission.

TestHike collects what's needed to run and score the assessment: the candidate's code and answers, timing, and the specific activity signals an organization has enabled for that assessment (such as focus changes or connected displays). See our Privacy page for the full breakdown.

Pricing depends on assessment volume, seats, and which features an organization needs. See the Pricing page for how the model works, or contact us for a quote specific to your hiring or academic use case.

TestHike offers API access for teams that want to connect assessment results to their own systems. See the Platform overview for what's available today and what's on the roadmap.

Yes. Request a trial and our team will set you up with a working assessment so you can see the candidate experience and the review dashboard before committing to anything.