Before you take the test

It is a set of multiple-choice questions about the languages or tools the company chose. You pick an answer for each one. The company decides how many questions there are, whether there is a time limit, and what score counts as a pass.

Your answers are checked on our servers against a list of correct answers written in advance by a person. Your score is the number you got right. If the company set a pass mark, we compare your score to that number. That is the whole of it. No software here forms an opinion about you, ranks you against anyone else, or recommends whether you should be hired.

• The email address the company sent your invitation to.
• If you sign in, the name, email and profile picture on that account.
• Which answer you picked for each question, your score, and how long you took.
• A copy of the exact questions you were shown.

The company that invited you can see your result. How much of it you get to see afterwards is their choice, and it can be everything, your score only, or nothing.

This matters, so here it is in full.

• Your camera is never used. We never ask for it and we hold no photos or video of you.
• Your screen is never recorded.
• Nothing watches your other tabs or apps. We do not detect tab switching, block copy and paste, log your keystrokes, or track your mouse.
• Nobody is watching you take it. There is no proctor, human or automated.
• We do not guess anything about who you are. No software here tries to work out your gender, ethnicity, age or anything similar from your name or your writing.

One thing this means in practice: if you use a screen reader, a magnifier, a second window for notes, or you work slowly, none of that is detected and none of it can be held against you here. There is no cheating detector to be tripped.

If a time limit would measure your disability rather than your skills, ask for a change. You are entitled to. Here is how it works:

1. Fill in the request form. You need the test link the company sent you and the email address they sent it to. No account needed.
2. Choose extra time (a quarter more, half again, or double) or no time limit at all.
3. The company that invited you decides. We email you either way.

Please do not send us a diagnosis or medical records. We do not want them, we are not qualified to assess them, and we would not do anything differently if we had them. There is a free text box if you want to explain what would help. You can leave it empty.

Extra time changes the clock and nothing else. The questions, the marking, and the pass mark are identical. Your result does not say you had an accommodation.

Ask before you start if you can. If a test has already begun and you are stuck, email hello@journeyuncommon.com and say so.

Extra time is the most common thing people need, so it has a form. It is not the only thing you can ask for. If you need the test in a different format, a break part way through, or a different way of being assessed altogether, say so on the same form under “something else”, or email us and we will pass it to the company. Asking for a different process is allowed and it is not held against you.

You can ask what we hold about you, ask for a copy, or ask us to delete it, by emailing hello@journeyuncommon.com. One caveat worth knowing in advance: a company that used a test to make a hiring decision may be legally required to keep the record of it for several years, so we may not be able to delete a result immediately. We will tell you if that applies.

The full detail is in the privacy policy, and there is a longer technical version of everything above in the product summary.