Creating a Subjective Question

As a hiring manager, you can create Subjective Questions that test the most relevant skills of the candidate for your job opening. You can ask open-ended questions and provide a prompt to the candidates.

Examples:

These answers to subjective questions are manually evaluated by the test setters.

Prerequisites

• You must be logged in to your HackerRank for Work account.

Steps

1. Click Library tab on the home page and then click Create Question.

2. In the Select Question Type dialog box, click Subjective.

3. In the Problem Statement page:

1. Problem Name
   The problem name should be short and topical. It should not give any hints to solve the problem.
2. Score
   While you can assign any score you want for the questions you create, we use certain standards for assigning scores to the questions we create that you might find useful.
   

   Score	Question Type
   50 points	For an easy question that can be solved in 15 minutes
   75 points	For a medium question that can be solved in 30 minutes
   100 points	For a difficult question that can be solved in 45 to 60 minutes

3. Tags
   Tags are words or phrases that help with searchability and organization of your questions. You can add the existing tags or create new tags and set the difficulty level for your Question by associating the tags as Easy, Medium or Hard. Alternatively, associate custom Tags to identify your Question by its complexity or levels.

      a. Click the Tags drop-down, and type a keyword. Example, Easy.

      b. Click Add, the “Easy” tag is associated with the Question.

   When you view your Questions in the Library, the associated tags will be indicated for every Question. You can use these Tags to generate candidate reports and performance graphs.

   Refer to the Setting the Difficulty Level for Questions topic for more information.

4. Problem Description
   While describing the problem statement, ensure that the question is clear and detailed. You can also use tables, graphs, or attachments to enhance the clarity.

E. Internal Notes
Internal notes are for later reference. You can include a rubric about scoring the questions or write solutions to the problems in this section. These can be used by your team while evaluating the test. This is an optional step.

 Note: Internal notes are only visible to your team and you.

You can support your problem statement and internal notes by attaching a relevant reference file in these sections. Refer to the How to Attach a File to a Problem Statement for more information.

4. Click Save Question to save and exit. Alternatively, click Save and Add another to save this question and proceed to create another one.

The Questions you create are stored in the HackerRank Library under the “My company questions” section. The Question type and the associated tags are indicated below every Question title as shown below.

While in the Library, you can proceed to create more questions or add Questions to your Tests.