TestDome

TestDome sells pay-per-candidate online skills tests for coding, Excel and more than 100 other skills. The tests are scored automatically, and open-ended answers can be scored by AI. AI analysis of webcam and screen proctoring recordings flags possible cheating, and a live code-interview tool is included.
AssessmentScreening

HireAIScore rates TestDome 37 out of 100 (grade F, Substantial gaps) under rubric v1.0, last reviewed September 25, 2026. TestDome ranks 73 of 82 vendors rated in Assessment AI, against a category average of 46. That score is drawn from 31 evidence items across 7 rubric criteria for TestDome — 27 with a cited source, 5 recording that nothing was located.

Score breakdown

TestDome, criterion by criterion

Each rubric criterion is scored out of 100 on the cited evidence, then weighted into the total.

Weighted contribution shown to the right of each bar.

  1. Article 11 Technical Documentation

    Weight 20% · avg 50

    40

    +8.0

  2. Bias Audit Transparency

    Weight 18% · avg 41

    15

    +2.7

  3. FRIA Support

    Weight 15% · avg 31

    28

    +4.2

  4. Data Governance Disclosure

    Weight 15% · avg 53

    50

    +7.5

  5. Human Oversight Design

    Weight 12% · avg 55

    52

    +6.2

  6. Post-Market Monitoring

    Weight 12% · avg 38

    30

    +3.6

  7. Customer Documentation

    Weight 8% · avg 58

    60

    +4.8

Total weighted score

37.0(rounded to 37 for display)

Category avg is the mean raw score on that criterion across the 82 Assessment AI vendors in scope of this rubric, this one included.

Strongest criterion

Customer Documentation

60raw / 100

Contributes 4.8 to the total. 60 against a 58 category average.

Weakest criterion

Bias Audit Transparency

15raw / 100

Contributes 2.7 to the total. 15 against a 41 category average.

Cited evidence

The evidence behind the score

Every score is backed by at least one cited piece of evidence. Open a criterion to see what was found, when, and where.

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Evidence ledger

Items
31
Documentation
21
Public statement
5
Absence
5
With a source URL
27 of 31
Source hostnames
3
Fewest items
2
FRIA Support

These figures measure how thoroughly TestDome was reviewed, not how TestDome performed — an absence row, recording that nothing was located, is counted like any other item.

Article 11 Technical Documentation

4 items40

Bias Audit Transparency

4 items15

FRIA Support

2 items28
  • Public statementCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    The guide explains deployer duties under the EU AI Act and GDPR in general terms but states that TestDome does not currently publish deployer-support documentation for the EU AI Act.

    https://www.testdome.com/guide/coding-assessment-legal-defensibility

  • AbsenceCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    The legal hub, DPA, support knowledge base, guides and sitemap contain no FRIA template, deployer instructions under the EU AI Act, or DPIA template or worked example.

    Have a URL that disputes this?

Data Governance Disclosure

5 items50
  • DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    The sub-processor list names Microsoft Azure for application management, AI processing and storage (including webcam and screen recordings), with the database in the Azure West Europe region (Netherlands).

    https://www.testdome.com/legal/sub-processors

  • DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    The privacy policy (effective 19 June 2023) lists candidate data categories, says webcam and screen recordings are deleted automatically after 60 days, sets 37-month retention after account closure, and names a UK Article 27 representative.

    https://www.testdome.com/legal/privacy-policy

  • DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    The public DPA lists 'AI-based analysis of videos (screen and webcam)' as a processing operation and includes EU SCCs Module 2, a UK addendum, 72-hour breach notice and deletion within 60 days after termination.

    https://www.testdome.com/legal/data-processing-agreement

  • DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    The security policy describes Azure hosting, FIPS 140-2 encryption at rest, TLS in transit, Azure KeyVault secrets, need-to-know staff access and database backups kept up to 35 days, and relies on Azure's certifications rather than its own.

    https://www.testdome.com/legal/security-policy

  • DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    The GDPR support article says candidate data is anonymized automatically after a retention period customers can set from 1 to 5 years, and that proctoring images and videos are deleted after 60 days.

    https://support.testdome.com/support/solutions/articles/44002118513-gdpr-and-privacy

Human Oversight Design

6 items52
  • DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    The cheating-protection article (modified 5 May 2026) says false positives are possible and an AI proctoring alert is 'a hint to look closer, not as proof on its own', and advises employers to check with the candidate.

    https://support.testdome.com/support/solutions/articles/44002118510-cheating-protection

  • DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    AI proctoring shows reviewers an annotated timeline of flagged events with the recording beside it, and markets flagged incidents as evidence to identify disqualifying behavior.

    https://www.testdome.com/ai-proctoring

  • Public statementCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    The homepage claims 'Human-in-the-loop at every stage: test creation, scoring, and interviews' alongside a promise to screen out weak applicants early using automated question scoring.

    https://www.testdome.com/

  • DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    The screening page offers pass/fail grouping by passing score and candidate pass or fail emails, with no documented requirement for human review before a fail outcome.

    https://www.testdome.com/screening

  • DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    A TestDome post (first published 2019) says employers can manually change a candidate's pass/fail status if they disagree with the automatic tests.

    https://blog.testdome.com/how-to-screen-software-developers/

  • DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    A 13 March 2026 post calls AI scoring an assistant, not a replacement for human judgment, but says hiring teams 'still review top candidates', not every scored candidate.

    https://blog.testdome.com/ai-scoring-for-open-ended-test-questions/

Post-Market Monitoring

6 items30

Customer Documentation

4 items60

Editorial notes

Company overview

TestDome was founded in 2013 by Zeljko Svedic and Mario Zivic. Its legal entity, TestDome Ltd., is registered with the Commercial Court in Zagreb at Aleja lipa 1E, Croatia. LinkedIn and a +44 phone number present the company as London-based, but its legal pages name only the Zagreb entity. It also appoints a UK GDPR Article 27 representative, which a company established in the UK would not need. It sells pay-per-candidate skills tests at $7 to $20 per candidate with no subscription. Most answers are scored by fixed formulas. Open-ended TEXTAI answers are scored by AI, and prompt-engineering tasks are checked by GPT-4o on Azure. AI reviews webcam and screen proctoring recordings for signs of cheating. A Safe Exam Browser lockdown and a live code-interview tool are also offered. Data is hosted in Microsoft Azure's West Europe region (Netherlands).

Regulatory exposure

TestDome markets automatically scored tests with a configurable passing score to 'screen out weak applicants early'. When employers use them for New York City roles, they can count as an automated employment decision tool (AEDT) under NYC Local Law 144, which requires an annual independent bias audit and candidate notice. Under the EU AI Act they are high-risk AI (Annex III point 4). As an EU-established provider, TestDome will carry provider duties (technical documentation, human-oversight design, logging, post-market monitoring) once the deferred Annex III obligations apply on 2 December 2027. TestDome's own compliance guide says it publishes no independent bias audit and no EU AI Act deployer documentation. Its support site says its tests are not EEOC-validated for any specific job. GDPR Article 22 exposure arises when automated scores sort candidates into fail groups and trigger fail emails without a human review step. Illinois HB 3773 has required employer notice of AI use since 1 January 2026, yet TestDome's candidate help page does not mention AI scoring or AI analysis of recordings. Colorado's SB 26-189 disclosure regime (from 1 January 2027) also reaches US customers. So do California's FEHA automated-decision rules, which require four years of record retention; customers should check that duty against TestDome's 60-day auto-deletion of proctoring recordings. The proctoring AI looks for gaze, devices and extra people and does not appear to infer emotions, so the Article 5(1)(f) emotion-recognition ban does not appear to apply.

Path to a higher score

TestDome already publishes frank statements of its gaps, which gives it a clear roadmap. The biggest gains would come from five steps. (1) Commission and publish an independent bias audit, with impact ratios by sex and race/ethnicity, covering pass/fail outcomes on its most-used tests and the rates at which AI proctoring flags candidates. (2) Publish a system card for TEXTAI scoring, the GPT-4o validators and the proctoring model, with accuracy and false-positive rates and EU AI Act-style instructions for use. (3) Build and document a control that guarantees human review before a fail outcome, such as reviewer sign-off before fail emails and a reviewer override for AI-scored answers. (4) Publish deployer kits: candidate AI-notice templates for NYC, Illinois and Colorado, plus an EU AI Act and FRIA/DPIA support pack. (5) Add a public status page, a security.txt and vulnerability-disclosure policy for its stated bug bounty, and a changelog of AI model changes, and pursue SOC 2 or ISO 27001 and then ISO 42001.

Regulatory frame

What applies to assessment AI.

Assessment is the most-regulated surface in AI hiring. NYC LL 144, EEOC and OFCCP frameworks, Illinois HB 3773, and EU AI Act Annex III §4 all apply, with overlap on bias-audit obligations.

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