Why it comes up: A volume hiring assessment and matching platform, for employers hiring mostly hourly and frontline roles at scale.
Stands out: Combines assessments, pymetrics game-based tests, video interviews and Checkster reference checks under one vendor.
Watch out: Pricing is sales-quoted and built around volume and modules, so expect a demo and scoping before any number.
Best for
- Contact centers and BPOs hiring at volume
- Retail and hourly hiring teams
- Enterprises adding predictive assessments to an ATS
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Sales-quoted 14 day free trial API
Why it comes up: A long established pre-employment test library with cognitive, personality and skills tests, for teams that want testing without AI resume screening.
Stands out: Cognitive, personality, emotional intelligence, risk, and skills tests on one platform, with video interviews in the same suite.
Watch out: All three packages are sales-quoted. AI proctoring, the AI interview agent, and AI scoring are paid upgrades, and Develop is a separate add-on.
Best for
- HR teams adding validated pre-hire tests
- Companies that want cognitive plus personality tests
- Teams that want tests and video interviews together
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Why it comes up: Skills tests sold on published self-serve plans, so smaller teams can start without a sales call.
Stands out: A large test library with anti-cheating measures and a genuine free plan.
Watch out: The jump from Core to Plus is steep, and it is tests rather than video interviewing.
Best for
- Teams that want evidence before a live interview
- Organisations on the major applicant trackers
- Buyers replacing an enterprise assessment module
4.1 on Capterra from 267 reviews
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