For candidates

You have been asked to take a Savvanta assessment

Most of this site is written for the employers who buy assessments. This page is for you. It will not tell you the answers, and nobody here can give them to you — but almost everything else you might want to know is below.

What it is

A short simulation of the actual job rather than a quiz. Depending on the role, that means a spoken conversation with an AI playing a customer or a colleague, something written the way you would write it at work, a piece of real work in a monitored sandbox, or a few judgment questions. There is no personality test and no trick questions.

How it is scored

Against a written mark scheme that exists before you start, with anchors describing what a 1, a 3 and a 5 look like. Every score is reported to the employer with the excerpt of your own work that earned it — so a score is never just a number attached to your name.

We publish those mark schemes. If you want to see exactly what is being looked for in a role, the assessment library has them, and we would rather you read them than guess. Knowing that a rubric rewards checking a constraint before committing does not take the work out of doing it.

Who decides

A person at the company that invited you. Nothing here rejects or advances an application automatically, and the employer is told that in writing. If the result matters to a decision, a named human has to sign it with a reason.

What is recorded

What you produce — the transcript of a spoken task, the things you write, the work in the sandbox and the time you spent — and what the assessment needed to run. Not your camera unless the role's assessment says so plainly before you begin, not your other browser tabs, not anything you type outside the assessment, and never a password to any other service.

If you need an adjustment

Ask the company that invited you, before you start. Extra time, a different format, assistive technology, or a text equivalent of a spoken task are all normal requests. Every assessment involving a live call has a written equivalent, and the result does not record which one you took.

Using AI

Depends on the role, and the assessment will tell you plainly rather than leaving you to guess. In technical assessments it is usually allowed and visible, because the follow-up conversation is about the code in front of you and nobody can have that conversation for you.