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Compare the top talent evaluation platforms

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Before we review the world’s top candidate evaluation platforms for assessments, interviews, and upskilling, let’s first define what each of these capabilities means. Keep in mind that different platforms may use slightly different terms, but the general types of capabilities are:

Before we review the world’s top candidate evaluation platforms for assessments, interviews, and upskilling, let’s first define what each of these capabilities means. Keep in mind that different platforms may use slightly different terms, but the general types of capabilities are:

Assessments

In a recorded and timed online environment, candidates solve automatically graded challenges, projects, and questions.

Interviews

In a real-time video/audio environment with interviewers, candidates collaborate in a code editor, whiteboard, or other experience.

Upskilling

Internal benchmarking and coursework for levelling up workforce across technical skills, often in preparation for the AI age.

Each in-person interview costs about $1,500 while hiring an unqualified candidate costs many times more.

Each in-person interview costs about $1,500 while hiring an unqualified candidate costs many times more.

Phone Screen

Resume Screen

Tech Screen

Tech Interview

Take-Home Project

While there is no standard candidate evaluation and hiring process, it makes sense for employers to find a solution that is flexible and can accommodate current and future workflows, for technical and non-technical roles.

The cost of interviewing and/or hiring an unqualified candidate is astronomically high. Promoting or reassigning an internal resource is sometimes a better approach. Most companies deploy one or more of the above evaluation capabilities, depending on the number of candidates, role, seniority, and urgency.

Key features

Key features

Within and across assessment capabilities are a series of important features that every employer should consider when selecting a candidate evaluation platform. There are tradeoffs for each platform and there is no universally perfect solution. Rather, each employer should evaluate how important each of the following features are to them as they find the solution that best fits their unique criteria.

Within and across assessment capabilities are a series of important features that every employer should consider when selecting a candidate evaluation platform. There are tradeoffs for each platform and there is no universally perfect solution. Rather, each employer should evaluate how important each of the following features are to them as they find the solution that best fits their unique criteria.

Content library
Content library

While many employers will create their own questions for each role, it’s great to have access to a large, modern, and validated library of questions and challenges. Candidate evaluation platforms are in a much better position to craft and test unbiased challenges. When possible, pick a platform with thoughtfully designed challenges for each role and skill you prioritize.

While many employers will create their own questions for each role, it’s great to have access to a large, modern, and validated library of questions and challenges. Candidate evaluation platforms are in a much better position to craft and test unbiased challenges. When possible, pick a platform with thoughtfully designed challenges for each role and skill you prioritize.

Question types
Question types

Across environments are different question types that will be critical to accurately evaluating candidates. Beyond coding challenges are multiple choice questions, open-ended questions, video response questions, tasks with custom uploads, whiteboard questions, etc.

Across environments are different question types that will be critical to accurately evaluating candidates. Beyond coding challenges are multiple choice questions, open-ended questions, video response questions, tasks with custom uploads, whiteboard questions, etc.

Cheating detection
Cheating detection

It’s an unfortunate reality that many candidates will try to cheat. Sometimes cheating is egregious like copying and pasting an entire solution found online and sometimes it’s less serious, like searching for the right syntax for a function. The best platforms will both prevent and detect cheating so that you can evaluate each candidate in the context of any unfair advantage they may have sought.

It’s an unfortunate reality that many candidates will try to cheat. Sometimes cheating is egregious like copying and pasting an entire solution found online and sometimes it’s less serious, like searching for the right syntax for a function. The best platforms will both prevent and detect cheating so that you can evaluate each candidate in the context of any unfair advantage they may have sought.

Integrations
Integrations

If your applicant tracking system (ATS) is your home for all recruiting workflows, it may be important that the candidate evaluation platform you select have a seamless integration for sending assessments, scheduling interviews, and receiving results.

If your applicant tracking system (ATS) is your home for all recruiting workflows, it may be important that the candidate evaluation platform you select have a seamless integration for sending assessments, scheduling interviews, and receiving results.

Candidate experience
Candidate experience

While often overlooked, the candidate experience is perhaps the most important criteria for any platform. The best candidates get multiple offers and will drop out of any subpar recruiting experience quickly. Make sure you select a platform that puts candidates first with clear instructions, user experience, and features.

While often overlooked, the candidate experience is perhaps the most important criteria for any platform. The best candidates get multiple offers and will drop out of any subpar recruiting experience quickly. Make sure you select a platform that puts candidates first with clear instructions, user experience, and features.

Security & compliance
Security & compliance

Candidate data can be sensitive and employers increasingly need vendors to demonstrate SOC 2 and GDPR compliance, among other cybersecurity and privacy measures.

Candidate data can be sensitive and employers increasingly need vendors to demonstrate SOC 2 and GDPR compliance, among other cybersecurity and privacy measures.

Pricing
Pricing

The investment required is both an economic factor but also a strategic factor in any evaluation criteria. Platforms that severely restrict the number of candidates that can be evaluated largely defeat the purpose of using the technology in the first place. If employers must pre-screen who they screen, they are directly introducing bias into a process meant to eliminate bias.

The investment required is both an economic factor but also a strategic factor in any evaluation criteria. Platforms that severely restrict the number of candidates that can be evaluated largely defeat the purpose of using the technology in the first place. If employers must pre-screen who they screen, they are directly introducing bias into a process meant to eliminate bias.

Company overviews

Company overviews

Coderbyte

HackerRank

Codility

CoderPad

TestGorilla

Coderbyte

HackerRank

Codility

CoderPad

TestGorilla

Coderbyte

HackerRank

Codility

CoderPad

TestGorilla

Coderbyte

Starting initially as an affordable alternative to HackerRank, Coderbyte has since leapfrogged the competition in terms of capabilities and customer adoption. While still offering a self-service platform with straightforwards pricing and everyday features, Coderbyte now also offers an enterprise tier used by Fortune 500 organizations like Apple, Samsung, Toyota, and more. Coderbyte has also innovated significantly in areas like cheating detection, candidate experience, and non-technical question content.

Pros:

  • Coderbyte is the only platform that offers unlimited admins, assessments, interviews, and candidates on any subscription plan, beginning at just $199/month.

  • The most powerful IDE including multi-file support, frontend frameworks, backend frameworks, terminal access, database support, and more.

  • Templates and question library for technical and non-technical roles, including full-stack DevOps, data science, UX, product, sales, marketing, and customer success.

Cons:

  • Given the pricing, Coderbyte does not offer a default level of account management for self-service platforms. The only support available to them is the help center or in-app chat.

  • While Coderbyte offers a wide-ranging library, any individual topic may have few available questions. Other platforms tend to have larger libraries of questions for the most popular topics.

Recommended:

  • Tech-forward organizations that are interviewing at scale or intermittently, and are comfortable operating a self-service tool

Coderbyte

Starting initially as an affordable alternative to HackerRank, Coderbyte has since leapfrogged the competition in terms of capabilities and customer adoption. While still offering a self-service platform with straightforwards pricing and everyday features, Coderbyte now also offers an enterprise tier used by Fortune 500 organizations like Apple, Samsung, Toyota, and more. Coderbyte has also innovated significantly in areas like cheating detection, candidate experience, and non-technical question content.

Pros:

  • Coderbyte is the only platform that offers unlimited admins, assessments, interviews, and candidates on any subscription plan, beginning at just $199/month.

  • The most powerful IDE including multi-file support, frontend frameworks, backend frameworks, terminal access, database support, and more.

  • Templates and question library for technical and non-technical roles, including full-stack DevOps, data science, UX, product, sales, marketing, and customer success.

Cons:

  • Given the pricing, Coderbyte does not offer a default level of account management for self-service platforms. The only support available to them is the help center or in-app chat.

  • While Coderbyte offers a wide-ranging library, any individual topic may have few available questions. Other platforms tend to have larger libraries of questions for the most popular topics.

Recommended:

  • Tech-forward organizations that are interviewing at scale or intermittently, and are comfortable operating a self-service tool

Coderbyte

Starting initially as an affordable alternative to HackerRank, Coderbyte has since leapfrogged the competition in terms of capabilities and customer adoption. While still offering a self-service platform with straightforwards pricing and everyday features, Coderbyte now also offers an enterprise tier used by Fortune 500 organizations like Apple, Samsung, Toyota, and more. Coderbyte has also innovated significantly in areas like cheating detection, candidate experience, and non-technical question content.

Pros:

  • Coderbyte is the only platform that offers unlimited admins, assessments, interviews, and candidates on any subscription plan, beginning at just $199/month.

  • The most powerful IDE including multi-file support, frontend frameworks, backend frameworks, terminal access, database support, and more.

  • Templates and question library for technical and non-technical roles, including full-stack DevOps, data science, UX, product, sales, marketing, and customer success.

Cons:

  • Given the pricing, Coderbyte does not offer a default level of account management for self-service platforms. The only support available to them is the help center or in-app chat.

  • While Coderbyte offers a wide-ranging library, any individual topic may have few available questions. Other platforms tend to have larger libraries of questions for the most popular topics.

Recommended:

  • Tech-forward organizations that are interviewing at scale or intermittently, and are comfortable operating a self-service tool

Feature breakdown

Feature breakdown

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4.4 (312 reviews)

4.5 (1,378 reviews)

Product

Assessments

Test that consist of automatically-graded challenges and questions that a candidate answers asynchronously.

Available ⓘ

Available ⓘ

Available ⓘ

Available ⓘ

Interviews

Interactive, multiplayer environment for code pairing, whiteboarding, and video/audio, graded with an interviewer scorecard.

Available ⓘ

Available ⓘ

Available ⓘ

Not available

Upskilling

Internal benchmarking for leveling up workspace across technical skills.

Available ⓘ

Available ⓘ

Available ⓘ

Not available

Pricing

Trial

Free 14-day trial ⓘ

Free 14-day trial ⓘ

Free for 2 candidates per month ⓘ

5 skills tests with up to 5 questions each ⓘ

Monthly subscription

Begins at $199/mo for unlimited candidates ⓘ

Begins at $199/mo for 10 candidates ⓘ

Begins at $100/mo for 5 candidates ⓘ

Not available

Annual subscription

Begins at $1,699/yr for unlimited candidates ⓘ

Begins at $1,990/yr for 120 candidates ⓘ

Begins at $840/yr for 60 candidates ⓘ

Begins at $1,704/yr for 130 candidates ⓘ

Pay-as-you go pricing

$10/candidate ⓘ

Not available

Not available

Not available

Enterprise pricing

$9,995/yr for dedicated account management ⓘ

Custom pricing for more than 300 candidates per year ⓘ

Custom pricing for more than 360 candidates per year ⓘ

Custom pricing for more than 130 candidates per year ⓘ

Assessments

Coding library

Front-end

Back-end

Prompt engineering ⓘ

Mobile

QA

DevOps

DevSec

Data science

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Front-end

Back-end

Mobile

QA

DevOps

DevSec

Data science

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Back-end

Mobile

Data science

DevOps

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Back-end

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Roles

Software

Analyst

Product

Design

Sales

Marketing

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Software

Analyst

Product

Design

Sales

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Question types

Coding

Jupyter Notebook ⓘ

Spreadsheets ⓘ

Personality ⓘ

Multiple choice ⓘ

Text response ⓘ

Video response ⓘ

File upload ⓘ

Whiteboard ⓘ

Take-Home Project

Coding

Multiple choice ⓘ

Coding

Game

Multiple choice ⓘ

Text response ⓘ

Coding

Multiple choice ⓘ

Text response ⓘ

Video response ⓘ

Personality ⓘ

File upload ⓘ

Cheating detection

Plagiarism ⓘ

Copy/paste ⓘ

Leaving tab ⓘ

Google Search ⓘ

AI usage ⓘ

Webcam proctoring ⓘ

Face ⓘ

Location ⓘ

Suspicious activity ⓘ

Identity verification ⓘ

Plagiarism ⓘ

Copy/paste ⓘ

Leaving tab ⓘ

AI usage ⓘ

Webcam proctoring ⓘ

Face ⓘ

Watermarking ⓘ

Multiple window ⓘ

Plagiarism ⓘ

Copy/paste ⓘ

Leaving tab ⓘ

Webcam proctoring ⓘ

Face ⓘ

Screen resolution ⓘ

Location ⓘ

Face ⓘ

Screen recording

Entire tab ⓘ

Code playback only ⓘ

Code playback only ⓘ

Not available

Interviews

IDEs

Monaco

VS Code ⓘ

Monaco

VS Code

Monaco

VS Code

Not available

Other capabilities

Jupyter Notebook

Whiteboard ⓘ

Spreadsheet

Private notes ⓘ

Video/audio

Interviewer code ⓘ

Jupyter Notebook ⓘ

Whiteboard ⓘ

Diagram ⓘ

Private notes ⓘ

Video/audio

Coding

Jupyter Notebook ⓘ

Not available

Admin

Analytics

Available ⓘ

Available ⓘ

Available ⓘ

Not available

User licenses

Unlimited user licenses

Pay per user license

Unlimited user licenses

Custom pricing for 3+ user licenses

Permissions

User roles ⓘ

Team management ⓘ

User roles ⓘ

Team management ⓘ

User roles ⓘ

Team management ⓘ

User roles ⓘ

Single Sign-On (SSO)

Single Sign-On ⓘ

SCIM ⓘ

Magic link ⓘ

Single Sign-On ⓘ

SCIM ⓘ

Single Sign-On ⓘ

SCIM ⓘ

Not available

ATS integrations

Native integrations ⓘ

Zapier ⓘ

Native integrations ⓘ

Native integrations ⓘ

Chrome extension ⓘ

Native integrations ⓘ

Zapier ⓘ

API

Available ⓘ

Available ⓘ

Available ⓘ

Not available

Custom subdomain

Available ⓘ

Not available

Not available

Not available

Permissions

Email

Live chat

Ticketing

Slack

Email

Live chat

Phone

Ticketing

Email

Ticketing

Compliance

SOC 2 Type 2 ⓘ

GDPR ⓘ

EU data residency option ⓘ

SOC 2 Type 2 ⓘ

ISO 27001 ⓘ

GDPR ⓘ

SOC 2 Type 2 ⓘ

GDPR ⓘ

SOC 2 Type 2 ⓘ

GDPR ⓘ

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Assessments

Interviews

Upskilling

Personality

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