Getting Started

The shortest path to creating an assessment, inviting a candidate, and reviewing the result.

Merge is a code review assessment platform. A team creates an assessment, invites a candidate, the candidate reviews a code diff, and Merge turns the review into structured hiring signal.

Core Concepts

Assessment: the prompt, repository context, rubric, and timing configuration for a code review exercise.
Invite: a candidate link for a specific assessment.
Review: comments and notes submitted by the candidate against the code context.
Result: scoring output, reviewer observations, submission metadata, and a hiring-team summary.
Team workspace: where hiring teams create assessments, invite candidates, and review results.
Candidate workspace: where candidates complete the assessment from their invite link.

First Assessment

Sign in to the admin app.
Create an assessment with a focused prompt and a reviewable code context.
Invite one pilot candidate before inviting real candidates.
Complete the candidate flow from the invite link.
Review the generated result and adjust rubric language before broad rollout.

Good Assessment Prompts

Strong prompts ask candidates to review code the way they would at work. They should include enough context to judge tradeoffs, but not so much that the task becomes a reading-comprehension test.

Use prompts that ask candidates to identify:

correctness risks
missing tests
security or data-handling issues
maintainability problems
unclear product assumptions

Avoid prompts that ask for:

a full rewrite
trivia about framework details
broad architecture essays
implementation work unrelated to reviewing code

Recommended Pilot

Run the first assessment with three trusted pilot reviewers:

one person who should clearly pass
one person who should clearly fail
one person near your hiring bar

Compare their results before using the assessment in a hiring loop.