Creating & Editing Assessments

Build an assessment in minutes with the guided helper, or hand-pick every question yourself. This guide covers the builder, putting questions in order, the question bank, per-question analytics, and the assessments Hive composes for you automatically.

1. Create with the helper

From Assessments, click New Assessment. The guided builder has three steps (Role/Skills Selection, Assessment Configuration, and Review & Confirm):

1. Choose a Role: search for the role you're hiring for (e.g. Frontend Developer), then Select Relevant Skills from the suggested skill pills.
2. Configure Your Assessment: set the Average Assessment Difficulty (Easy / Medium / Hard) and pick your Question Types. Each type card shows how many matching questions are available. See Assessment Types for what each one measures.
3. Review & Confirm: Hivemind shows Composing Questions... while it generates an optimized set of 10 questions weighted to your difficulty. Review the list, swap anything you like, then click Confirm and Create.

Prefer full control? Click Skip helper and create manually at any step. Manual mode gives you an Assessment Title field, an Add Questions button, and a Description editor with a Generate button that writes candidate-facing instructions for you.

2. Add questions from the bank

The Add Questions button opens Add Questions to Assessment, a filterable picker over your question bank. Toggle Include templates to browse Hivemind's shared template questions alongside your own, select what you need, and click Add Selected.

3. Edit an existing assessment

Open any assessment via Edit Assessment. The editor shows the questions on the left and an Overview panel on the right that adds up the question count, duration, Difficulty, Format (question types) and Skills. From the header you can copy the assessment link, Preview it exactly as candidates will see it, and jump to Applicants.

• Questions: click Add Questions to pull more from the bank, or open a question's ⋯ (more actions) menu and choose Remove. Use the eye icon to preview a single question.
• Title and Description: click the title to rename the assessment, and edit the Description (what candidates read before they start). Generate rewrites it from the current questions, so regenerate after changing the set.

Question changes (adding, removing, reordering) save as you make them. The title and description save when you click Save; until then the header shows Unsaved. Difficulty and time limit recalculate automatically from the question set.

Put questions in order

Candidates answer the questions in the order shown in the editor, so you can open gently and build up:

1. Grab the handle on the left of a question and drag it to a new position, or
2. Open the question's ⋯ menu and choose Move to top, Move up, Move down, or Move to bottom. This works without a mouse, too.

The new order saves straight away. If it can't be saved, you'll see Couldn't save the new order and the question moves back to where it was. Candidates still get the freedom to jump around: the progress panel lets them open any question in any order. See Assessment Types.

4. Manage the question bank

Click Question Bank on the assessments page to open Questions: every question you can reuse across assessments, with Type, Difficulty, Duration, Skills, Roles, and Source (Custom vs Template). Click New Question to create your own:

• AI mode (default): describe the question you want in What question do you want to create?, pick a type, and click Create Question. Review the generated question, assign skills, and save.
• Manual mode: write the Question Title and Description, set Duration (min), Difficulty, and Skill(s), then fill the Question Configuration. Multiple-choice questions take 2–4 Answer Choices with one marked as the Correct Answer; open-ended, video, and coding questions use an Evaluation Rubric, the point-weighted criteria the AI grades against.

5. Check per-question analytics

From the question bank, open a question's Question Analytics to see Total Usage, Total Candidates, Average Score, and Answer Rate, plus a score distribution and recent answers. Retire questions that everyone aces (or no one finishes) to keep your assessments sharp.

6. Let Hive build it for you

When you create a pipeline with the Hive chat builder using the Skills Prescreen template, the Composing assessment step auto-builds a 10-question assessment from the role, skills, and seniority you chose, with no extra work needed. It lands in your library like any other assessment, so you can refine it afterwards. See Quick Start and Creating a Pipeline.

What's next

• Attach your assessment to a stage in the Pipeline Nodes Reference
• See what candidates experience in The Candidate Experience
• Read the scores in Reviewing Results