Getting Started

How Assessments Work

SkillsProject assessments are designed to reflect the actual work—not whiteboard puzzles or memorized answers. They're built to evaluate what truly matters: how someone solves problems in your environment, using tools your team already uses.

🧠 Built on Real Work

Every assessment starts with the role. Our Role Agent (TalentAlly) analyzes your job description and turns it into a real-world task that mirrors what the role actually demands.

Example:
Hiring a DevOps engineer? A candidate might be asked to debug a broken CI pipeline or provision infrastructure with Terraform.
Hiring a frontend developer? They could be tasked with implementing a live UI component based on a provided design spec.

🎥 Add Human Context

Before the technical task begins, candidates respond to short video questions—giving you early insight into how they think, communicate, and approach the role.

After completing the task, they’ll also record a short explanation of their work: what they built, how they approached the challenge, and what tradeoffs they made.

⚙️ Live, Realistic Environment

Candidates complete tasks in a secure, preconfigured virtual machine (VM) designed for real development work:

  • Write, test, and run real code

  • Use familiar tools and libraries

  • Web search, AI tools, and copy/paste are allowed—as long as they understand what they’re implementing

  • These tools can be toggled on or off at the discretion of your team

  • Assessments are timed, but candidates can take them on their own schedule

✅ What You Get

When a candidate finishes, SkillsProject automatically generates a comprehensive SkillsProject Profile, including:

  • The candidate’s code and output

  • A replay of their work session

  • Pre-task and post-task video answers

  • AI-graded performance scores

  • Contextual breakdowns of their strengths, blind spots, and decision-making

  • Suggested interview questions based on how they approached the work

This isn’t a simulation. It’s the job—just earlier in the process.

How Assessments Work

SkillsProject assessments are designed to reflect the actual work—not whiteboard puzzles or memorized answers. They're built to evaluate what truly matters: how someone solves problems in your environment, using tools your team already uses.

🧠 Built on Real Work

Every assessment starts with the role. Our Role Agent (TalentAlly) analyzes your job description and turns it into a real-world task that mirrors what the role actually demands.

Example:
Hiring a DevOps engineer? A candidate might be asked to debug a broken CI pipeline or provision infrastructure with Terraform.
Hiring a frontend developer? They could be tasked with implementing a live UI component based on a provided design spec.

🎥 Add Human Context

Before the technical task begins, candidates respond to short video questions—giving you early insight into how they think, communicate, and approach the role.

After completing the task, they’ll also record a short explanation of their work: what they built, how they approached the challenge, and what tradeoffs they made.

⚙️ Live, Realistic Environment

Candidates complete tasks in a secure, preconfigured virtual machine (VM) designed for real development work:

  • Write, test, and run real code

  • Use familiar tools and libraries

  • Web search, AI tools, and copy/paste are allowed—as long as they understand what they’re implementing

  • These tools can be toggled on or off at the discretion of your team

  • Assessments are timed, but candidates can take them on their own schedule

✅ What You Get

When a candidate finishes, SkillsProject automatically generates a comprehensive SkillsProject Profile, including:

  • The candidate’s code and output

  • A replay of their work session

  • Pre-task and post-task video answers

  • AI-graded performance scores

  • Contextual breakdowns of their strengths, blind spots, and decision-making

  • Suggested interview questions based on how they approached the work

This isn’t a simulation. It’s the job—just earlier in the process.

How Assessments Work

SkillsProject assessments are designed to reflect the actual work—not whiteboard puzzles or memorized answers. They're built to evaluate what truly matters: how someone solves problems in your environment, using tools your team already uses.

🧠 Built on Real Work

Every assessment starts with the role. Our Role Agent (TalentAlly) analyzes your job description and turns it into a real-world task that mirrors what the role actually demands.

Example:
Hiring a DevOps engineer? A candidate might be asked to debug a broken CI pipeline or provision infrastructure with Terraform.
Hiring a frontend developer? They could be tasked with implementing a live UI component based on a provided design spec.

🎥 Add Human Context

Before the technical task begins, candidates respond to short video questions—giving you early insight into how they think, communicate, and approach the role.

After completing the task, they’ll also record a short explanation of their work: what they built, how they approached the challenge, and what tradeoffs they made.

⚙️ Live, Realistic Environment

Candidates complete tasks in a secure, preconfigured virtual machine (VM) designed for real development work:

  • Write, test, and run real code

  • Use familiar tools and libraries

  • Web search, AI tools, and copy/paste are allowed—as long as they understand what they’re implementing

  • These tools can be toggled on or off at the discretion of your team

  • Assessments are timed, but candidates can take them on their own schedule

✅ What You Get

When a candidate finishes, SkillsProject automatically generates a comprehensive SkillsProject Profile, including:

  • The candidate’s code and output

  • A replay of their work session

  • Pre-task and post-task video answers

  • AI-graded performance scores

  • Contextual breakdowns of their strengths, blind spots, and decision-making

  • Suggested interview questions based on how they approached the work

This isn’t a simulation. It’s the job—just earlier in the process.