Rokt's CCAT: account executive and engineer expectations

Rokt and the CCAT at a glance

Roles at Rokt reported to include the CCAT

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The numbers below use our estimate for Rokt: a range of 25 to 28 out of 50 with a target of 27. Nothing is saved. If you ask Clever below, it sees your numbers.

Same test, different expectations

Rokt builds e-commerce technology that shows relevant offers at the moment a customer completes a purchase. Its candidates report the CCAT for both sales and engineering roles, and the test is identical for both: 50 questions, 15 minutes, no calculator.

What differs is the score a hiring team is likely to look for. Criteria suggests a floor of 19 for sales and account executive roles and 20 for software development. Those floors are close, but competition is not. Senior engineering candidates are usually compared with other strong technical applicants, so our estimate for that role sits a few points higher.

• Account executive: estimate 23 to 26, target about 25.
• Senior software engineer: estimate 26 to 29, target about 28.

For account executives: the numbers you will see on the test

Sales candidates often expect a personality quiz and get timed math instead. Rokt's account executives talk about conversion rates and campaign spend, and the CCAT asks similar small calculations: unit prices, rates and percentages, done without a calculator.

Verbal analogies are the other half of the sales score. They reward a quick sentence that links the first pair, then testing that sentence on each option.

For senior engineers: the early gate

The CCAT comes right after the recruiter call, before anyone has seen your technical work. One candidate reports a rejection after the test, so the gate applies to senior applicants too. Prepare for it before you take the recruiter call, since the link may arrive the same day.

Senior engineers usually lose points to time, not difficulty. Bank seconds on series, matrices and short algebra, then spend them on the verbal items that slow most technical candidates down.

Compare the two roles side by side

If you are deciding between a sales and an engineering opening at Rokt, or moving from one track to the other, use the role comparison on this page. It shows Criteria's suggested floor for each role next to our estimate, so you can see how far above the minimum each target sits.

Then take one timed practice test and compare your score with the estimate for your role. A gap of two or three points usually closes fastest by drilling the two question types that cost you the most time, not by taking full test after full test.

Where the CCAT sits in Rokt's hiring process

1. 1

   Recruiter call

   Reported as the first conversation.

2. 2

   CCAT

   Reported right after the recruiter call. One candidate was rejected after this step.

3. 3

   Hiring-manager interview

   Typical next step; not described in the reports.

4. 4

   Role-specific rounds

   Typical: a sales exercise for account executives, technical interviews for engineers.

Steps are as candidates describe them. Processes change by role and over time.

Tips for the Rokt CCAT

• Prepare before the recruiter call; candidates report the CCAT link right after it.
• On unit-rate questions, find the price of one first, then multiply; skip setting up a proportion.
• For analogies, say the link between the first pair in one short sentence before reading the options.
• Account executives: practise percentages of round numbers until 35% of 80 takes under 10 seconds.
• If you are rejected after the test, ask the recruiter when you may reapply; retake rules are set by the employer.

Question types to drill first

• Speed and unit ratesUnit-price and rate problems mirror the quick math of sales and adtech work.Word problems with worked examples
• Word analogiesA large share of verbal points for every role, and fast with a bridge sentence.Verbal questions with worked examples
• PercentagesMental percentage math shows up across the math section.Math questions with worked examples

Practice questions in the same formats

These are our own practice questions, written in the CCAT's formats. Rokt does not publish its test questions, and neither does Criteria. For a full timed run, take the free CCAT practice test.

How we estimate

Rokt does not publish a CCAT score, so the numbers on this page are our estimate. We start from Criteria's published job-family floors for the roles candidates report, then place them against Criteria's two norm groups, where the median raw score is 24. We adjust for how competitive the applicant pool is, and we use an employer's own published baseline whenever one exists.

Percentiles come from a normal model on Criteria's published median and standard deviations, shown as a range across both groups. See the CCAT percentile chart for the method and what a good CCAT score is for the published job-family floors.

Clever Cat Prep is not affiliated with Rokt or Criteria Corp. Rokt is a trademark of its owner.