Custom Questions

From multiple choice to live coding questions, teams use TestDome to create their own questions, invite candidates, and automatically score skills.
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75,000+ createdcustom questions
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Design the perfect question

Each question supports a name, description, skill, topics, expected time, and difficulty to help you structure content and filter at scale.

  • Description - use text, tables, images, video, and link your resources.
  • Skill & Topics – tag questions and filter your library instantly.
  • Expected Time – 1–60 minutes per question to balance depth and speed.
  • Difficulty – helps when making tailored tests.

Read a tutorial about creating custom questions that will guide you step by step.

Auto-scoring & flexible evaluation

Use automated scoring to leverage fair testing of large number of candidates:

  • Live coding with test suites across 30 programming languages & frameworks.
  • File uploads with validators for real‑world Excel and Word tasks.
  • AI‑validated text for rich, open‑ended answers.
  • Multiple‑choice, number picker, and fill the blanks formats.

Question types for all your needs

Multiple Choice MCQ
Select a single correct answer
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Text Answer TEXT
Provide a written response
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Multiple Correct Answers MCA
Choose all correct options
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Live Coding CODE
Solve a work-sample coding problem in real time
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Fill the Blanks FILL
Complete missing parts of code or text
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File Upload FILE
Upload CV, certificate, or a solution
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Multiple Sub-questions MMCQ
Answer several single-choice questions
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Number Picker NUM
Enter a numerical answer
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File Upload with Validator FILEV
Upload a file for automatic test suite evaluation
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AI Validated Text TEXTAI
Answer an open-ended question, auto-scored by AI
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Recording REC
Record an answer with the camera & microphone
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Live coding with test suites & libraries

Spin up real environments and evaluate with unit tests. Add popular libraries to match your stack, like Python for data science, ASP.NET Core MVC, and Java Hibernate.

Angular Bash C C++ C# Go HTML/CSS Java JavaScript jQuery SQL Node.js PHP Python R React Ruby Scala Swift TypeScript VB.NET

How TestDome works

1

Choose a pre-made test
or create a custom test

2

Invite candidates via
email, URL, or your ATS

3

Candidates take
a test remotely

4

Sort candidates and
get individual reports

Create your first custom question

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