# Hassle-free automated assessments

DevFeed: [Hassle-free automated assessments](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/hassle-free-automated-assessments-20013.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<http://engineering.hackerearth.com/2020/02/02/hassle-free-automated-assessments/>)

Published: 2020-02-02T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [HackerEarth](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/hackerearth.md>)

Topics: [ui](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ui.md>), [Front end](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/frontend.md>), [Web Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-development.md>), [CSS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/css.md>), [HTML](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/html.md>), [JavaScript](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/javascript.md>), [SQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sql.md>), [Java](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/java.md>), [React](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/react.md>)

Tags: [cognitive-load](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cognitive-load.md>), [css](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/css.md>), [customers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/customers.md>), [design](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/design.md>), [enterprise](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/enterprise.md>), [java](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/java.md>), [javascript](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/javascript.md>), [react](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/react.md>), [sql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sql.md>), [ui](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ui.md>)

## AI overview

The article describes HackerEarth's redesign of its automated assessment test-creation flow. It explains problems with the older profile-driven, complex, rigid, and limited interface, then presents a skill-driven, scalable flow designed for enterprise talent acquisition teams and non-technical test administrators. The redesign emphasizes minimal UI, lower cognitive load, improved flexibility, and support for varied skills, difficulties, and question types.

## Source excerpt

Our older test creation flow had several inherent problems associated with it: 1. Profile driven Earlier to this, we had test creation based on job profiles (role-based), which was restrictive as the skills were tightly coupled to the roles and were not customizable by the recruiters. For example, I could select a profile say front-end engineer and the questions generated will only be from HTML, CSS and Javascript. So, if a recruiter wanted to generate questions for a front-end engineer profile to test React skill, they had to add them manually from our questions library or theirs. 2. Complex UI The older interface was filled with unwanted form elements and had almost no provision to support newer question types. We somehow missed to provide a scalable and an intuitive step-by-step test creation flow that catered to the needs of our non-technical recruiters. 3. Rigid algorithm The algorithm we used for selecting the test questions was relatively rigid, so there was a limited scope in picking questions from a mix of skills and of varied difficulties, either from the HackerEarth's questions library or from the company's library or both. 4. Restricted question types Though there was a demand from our customers to include additional question types such as SQL, front-end project and Java project questions to the test creation flow, we could not accommodate them as the interface was already bloated. Your browser does not support the video tag. Design Based on the customer feedback and research data, it was important for us to improve the old flow in accord to the correct persona of our users. More focus was put on enterprise talent acquisition teams. We found out that in general scenario, such teams are bound by the following: Want - To hire good people with minimum effort and time Capabilities - Familiar with the technical terms and the skills needed for a role Limitations - Have low technical knowledge The new design was implemented keeping in mind all the requirements