Front End Developer Assessments, US Employers

This is an overview of how US employers assess front end developers, and of what the law requires at that stage. It is not an advert for one guaranteed vacancy, and no single employer has approved it.

Front end hiring in the United States is assessed in four common shapes: a timed online exercise, a take-home assignment built in your own time, a live or pair-programming session, and a portfolio review. Each of these is a selection procedure in federal law, which is the subject of the guide.

The federal search linked here covers the government side of this market, where the assessment stage is documented in the vacancy announcement itself. The commercial market is larger and rarely documents it, which is why the guide sets out what you are entitled to ask.