Leadership Test: Identify High-Performing Tech Leaders in 25 Minutes

Evaluate leadership potential and people management skills with scientifically validated assessments designed for tech companies and development teams.

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What is the Leadership test?

  • Situational judgment test evaluating leadership effectiveness through real-world tech scenarios
  • 25-minute assessment covering team management, decision-making, and strategic thinking
  • Scientifically validated with 87% predictive accuracy for on-the-job leadership performance
  • Mobile-friendly format with flexible proctoring options for remote hiring
  • Comprehensive reporting with actionable insights for hiring and development decisions

Why Use Leadership test

Skills & Competencies Assessed for the Leadership test

Who is The Leadership test For?

Customize the Leadership test

Tech-Specific Scenarios

Customize scenarios for software development, DevOps, product management, and engineering leadership. This ensures that the leadership test evaluates relevant challenges faced by leaders in your specific tech environment.

Role-Level Targeting

Adjust difficulty and competency focus for team leads, engineering managers, directors, and C-level positions. This ensures that each candidate is evaluated based on the expectations for their specific role.

Company Culture Alignment

Incorporate your organization's values, methodologies, and leadership principles into the assessment scenarios. This ensures that the candidates’ leadership style aligns with your company culture.

Pair The Leadership test With…

Advanced Hiring Features

Why choose HackerEarth’s assessment platform?

HackerEarth’s online coding platform simplifies developer skill assessment with customizable tests, a vast question library, and
automated evaluations, ensuring efficient and objective hiring.

25,000+ questions across 1000+ skills at your disposal

Thanks to a rich library of questions, including emerging AI skills, HackerEarth Assessments enable you to create highly accurate coding assessments for all roles. You can also create custom questions, or we can create it for you, to handle any kind of assessment that you may need.

Project type questions to simulate on- the-job problems

When hiring developers for your projects, you need more than just conceptual knowledge—you need problem solvers. Can they tackle real-world challenges? With HackerEarth, you can create project-based questions with custom datasets and test cases to assess their true capabilities.

Industry's best proctoring solution with automated invigilation

HackerEarth Assessments offer the industry's best proctoring capabilities with SmartBrowser technology, eliminating impersonation with advanced image processing. Our coding assessments detect tab switching, prevent copy-pasting, and let you customize proctoring stringency—ensuring a fair, secure, and cheat-proof evaluation process.

An experience that hiring managers like and developers love

With the ability to code in 40+ programming languages, a real-time code editor and integration with Jupyter Notebooks, HackerEarth Assessments is highly dev-friendly.

Detailed reports on each candidate’s performance

With insight-rich reports on a developer’s performance and the code replay feature, HackerEarth lets you get a deeper insight into a candidate’s capabilities.

Data-driven insights to help finetune the hiring funnel

The HackerEarth Assessments dashboard gives you a deeper analysis of your hiring funnel, enabling you to constantly improve your coding tests and create an industry-leading hiring process.
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A coding assessment platform that is built for enterprises and loved by everyone

HackerEarth offers industry-leading compliance, security and scalability, so you can build a tech team with no
worries, regardless of the size of your organization.
Testimonials

What our clients are saying

Hundreds of reviews showcase why companies worldwide trust HackerEarth to transform their tech hiring and build exceptional teams.
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Ananya U.
Ananya U Review
Helped us in better screening at the start of the hiring process;thus helping our internal team to interview the best of best folks and fastracking the closure rates of tech hirings.Also the support team has been one of our actual backbone while setting things up.
Neithan C.
Neithan C Review
I have used HackerEarth starting 2013. This was during a time that codeforces, kattis, codechef, l33tcode and similar online judges were the rave of all programmers who would want to develop their programming portfolio.
Ritheesh G.
Ritheesh G Review
I think one of the best part about HackerEarth is the versatility of the type of questions and the user interface. There are coding execution questions, Descriptive questions, MCQs, etc.
Neeraj K.
Neeraj K Review on developer assessment platform
I was given the hackerearth assesments by various companies as the first round of shortlisting and it has questions related to different proogramming languages like SQL and Python and also had few MCQ.
Lava Kumar G.
Lava kumar Review on developer assessment platform
In hacker earth assessments there are many featuers like light and dark mode which is comfortable during the assessments and also there is the autocomplete feature which is really helpful when completing code as it helps in avoiding errors and saving time helping the user to focus more on the logic as it is to be.
Juned T.
Juned T Review on developer assessment platform
HackerEarth Assessments is the glitch-free interface and access mode, with the IDLE being a lifesaver. The portal is easily accessible, supported by an efficient guide. Unlike other platforms, there are no lagging issues, and the smooth user experience stands out.
Srivishnu M.
Srivishnu M Review on developer assessment platform
The best part of hackerEarth s its easy to use interface, often we students get overwhelmed when attending the online assesment and this user interface helps us calm down and focus on the problem better, Moreover the customer support of hackerEarth is really good and easily approachable.
Ramanathan A.
Ramanathan A Review on developer assessment platform
HackerEarth Assessments excel in simplicity, both in use and implementation. The intuitive interface ensures a seamless experience, complemented by responsive customer support. The frequency of use is flexible, and the platform's rich features cater to diverse needs. Integration is a breeze, making it a top choice for hassle-free coding assessments.
Anand B.
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HackerEarth has Vast poll of Coding problems is very user frendly to setup a AssessmentsThey have a detailed reporting tooIts hlep us a lot in Campus hiring as it has randomizing the question
Brothin D.
Brothin D Review on developer assessment platform
HackerEarth is a great platform for online job assessments. The best thing that I like about it the most is that all the exams conducted on HackerEarth are full proctored and it takes various parameters into account while attending assessment like video, audio, tab switching etc. which makes hiring process a lot better and smoother.Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Manish S.
Manish S Review on developer assessment platform
HackerEarth assessments are tricky and well documented. They have clarity which provides an edge for the developer to code efficiently.
Umair N.
Umair N Review on developer assessment platform
The Interface and access mode is glitch free IDLE is a lifesaver on Hacker Earth. The users easily access the portal and the support guide is also very efficient. There isn't any lagging issue and smoothness is also a key to keep in mind if it's on Hacker Earth.Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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FAQs about Leadership test

How do I know this test is accurate for tech leadership roles?

Our leadership test is scientifically validated with 87% predictive accuracy for on-the-job performance. It's been specifically calibrated using data from 5,000+ tech leaders across software development, engineering management, and technical product roles.

Will this assessment work for remote and distributed teams?

Absolutely. The test includes scenarios specifically designed for remote leadership challenges, including virtual team management, asynchronous communication, and distributed project coordination. 78% of our customers use it for remote hiring.

How quickly can we implement this in our hiring process?

Most tech companies are up and running within 24-48 hours. Our implementation team provides guided setup, ATS integration support, and training for your hiring team. No technical expertise required on your end.

What if candidates don't complete the assessment?

We maintain a 94% completion rate due to our engaging, scenario-based format. The test is mobile-friendly, takes only 25 minutes, and provides candidates with valuable insights about their leadership style upon completion.

Can we customize scenarios for our specific tech stack or industry?

Yes, Professional and Enterprise plans include custom scenario development. We can incorporate your specific technologies, methodologies, and organizational challenges. Customization typically takes 1-2 weeks and maintains full scientific validity.

How does this integrate with our existing hiring tools?

We offer seamless integration with 50+ ATS platforms including Greenhouse, Lever, Workday, and BambooHR. API access is available for custom integrations. Most integrations are completed within 1-3 business days.

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