Pre-employment assessments simplify the process of hiring the right talent for your organization. They show you whether an applicant is a cultural fit for your company, for example, and measure the quantifiable skills they bring to the table.
By adopting this approach, you can reduce human bias and get back the hours you’d normally spend going through stacks of resumes.
To get the most benefit from a pre-employment testing platform, you need to make sure it’s right for your business. Here, we compare the features of TestGorilla and Ensize to help you choose the best platform.
TestGorilla is a pre-employment screening platform that makes it easy to create customized candidate assessments in minutes.
The platform helps you find the best talent by testing for the exact skills, personality type, and behavioral traits applicants will need on the job, from a library of over 400+ science-backed tests.
Our library includes personality tests, programming tests, cognitive ability tests, language tests, and much more. Need a specific test question? No problem. TestGorilla makes it easy to include custom questions and challenges for applicants to solve.
TestGorilla can also help you hire internationally, with websites and assessments in 12languages – all GDPR compliant.
You can hire confidently with TestGorilla – we develop every test with subject-matter experts and put it through a rigorous quality-control process.
TestGorilla also uses advanced anti-cheating measures, including snapshots of the candidate’s screen (with their permission) and limits on the number of times candidates can answer a video question.
TestGorilla lets you set weighted scores so some tests count more than others, and you can also set deadlines for test submissions. This makes it easy to customize assessments and keep things on track.
Ensize supports employee evaluation and development after hiring through a series of behavior assessments, though it can also be used for recruitment.
These assessments measure applicants’ communication styles and reactions to certain situations.
Ensize also has a Personal Work Styles assessment, which measures how employees behave in the workplace, and a HOW Index®, which measures how workers perform in a group or with specific coworkers.
Once applicants have taken the test, Ensize creates reports managers can review to digest the results.
A large library of ready-made pre-employment tests means you can measure a wide range of specific skills and abilities. This provides you with data you can use to make the right hire.
TestGorilla’s library has over 400+ tests for you to test many aspects of your candidates, including their:
Cognitive ability
Personality
Culture fit
Language skills
Technical and job-specific skills
Situational judgment
Programming skills
Software skills
You can choose up to five tests to create a customized assessment for your open role, plus create completely custom questions and challenges of your own. We’re also constantly updating our test library with new tests, including the below:
Kotlin coding test
Branding Strategy test
Merchandise Planning test
Structural Engineering test
Data Wrangling test
Public Relations Strategy test
Despite the number of tests, it’s easy to create your assessment. Just specify the role you’re hiring for and TestGorilla will recommend relevant tests for you to choose from. You can also preview tests and search for assessments by name.
What’s more, you can choose how you want applicants to answer custom questions, including multiple-choice, open-text, video, and file uploads.
See how TestGorilla leads the way in skills assessments. Sign up for our free live demo and discover a better way to evaluate candidates.
Ensize offers five types of assessment:
Behavior/DISC assessments: DISC assessments measure Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, and Conscientiousness.
Motivation assessments: These tests examine and measure workers’ motivations.
GAP 360°/180° assessments: These assessments give workers constructive feedback from their peers and employers to support their development.
Team assessments: These tests evaluate how well teams collaborate.
Employee surveys: These surveys evaluate current employees’ happiness in their roles.
| TestGorilla | Ensize |
Cognitive ability tests | Yes | No |
Situational judgment tests | Yes | Yes |
Job-specific tests | Yes | No |
Software tests | Yes | No |
Programming tests (including coding challenges) | Yes | No |
Language tests | Yes | No |
Personality tests | Yes | Yes |
Culture-add test | Yes | Yes |
Motivation test | Yes | Yes |
Your own custom tests | Yes | No |
Custom questions per assessment | Yes | No |
Test recommendations for each job role | Yes | No |
Multiple tests per assessment | Yes | Yes |
Assessment templates | Yes | No |
When hiring developers, it’s important to verify that applicants have all the skills you need. This includes familiarity with certain coding languages, mobile-development frameworks, debugging, and any other software skills.
Pre-employment assessments enable you to objectively measure these skills in a way that reading a candidate’s own evaluation of their abilities on a resume can’t do.
TestGorilla offers coding tests for 19 popular programming languages, including C++ and Python, plus tests for frameworks like React Native. ou can also create custom coding problems and debugging challenges.
TestGorilla’s made the developer assessment process easier with our langauge agnostic test. You can now use one test to assess a candidate’s coding chops in any of the 20 programming langauages they’re most comfortable using.
TestGorilla also allows test takers to configure their integrated development environment (IDE) to improve their assessment experience. They can change the font size, color theme, full screen, window screen, and more.
Finally, TestGorilla automatically grades coding tests to minimize bias and give you objective data about applicants.
Ensize doesn’t have tests to evaluate candidates’ coding ability, or any other developer-specific assessments or technical tests.
However, the platform’s DISC assessment does evaluate whether someone is results-driven or analytical, which could be useful when evaluating developers.
| TestGorilla | Ensize |
Coding languages | JavaScript, Java, Python, PHP,C#, C++,Kotlin, Ruby, TypeScript, Go, R, Scala, Swift, Perl, Dart, Julia, Rust, Elixar, SQL, and Earlang | No |
Web-development frameworks | Yes | No |
Mobile-development frameworks | Yes | No |
Algorithmic-thinking challenges | Yes | No |
Debugging challenges | Yes | No |
Language-specific concept challenges | Yes | No |
Your own custom coding challenges | Yes | No |
Code-playback function | Yes | No |
Automated scoring | Yes | No |
Live peer coding | No | No |
Video interviews are a great way to experience a candidate’s communication style, including their articulation, responsiveness, and body language.
Applicants can respond to custom questions and can usually even re-record their answers if they make a mistake.
TestGorilla offers custom one-way video interviews and video responses to test questions. You can then rate the reply and post comments on the video for your hiring team to see and replay the video responses at different speeds.
You have total control over asynchronous video questions on your assessments. You can limit video replies to 30 seconds, 60 seconds, two minutes, or three minutes, and candidates are limited to only three attempts per video question.
Ensize doesn’t offer any features that allow for video interviews or video replies in assessments.
| TestGorilla | Ensize |
One-way video interviews | Yes | No |
Custom video questions | Yes | N/A |
Record the number of candidates’ attempts | Yes | N/A |
Restrict maximum answer length | Yes | N/A |
Record and playback on any device | Yes | N/A |
Rate and comment on video answers | Yes | N/A |
Candidates are more likely to engage with a positive, smooth, and convenient assessment experience. This includes a mobile-friendly platform and an assessment of a reasonable length.
Candidates also appreciate dependable tech support for any questions during or before the assessment.
For employers, customization options like being able to add a company logo and colors to a test help with brand recognition. It also means applicants can feel sure they’re engaging with a legitimate pre-employment test.
TestGorilla prides itself on providing a positive hiring experience for candidates. We provide a mobile-friendly platform and accessible support for candidates when they need it.
Candidates don’t have to create an account to complete their assessment, and most tests take less than 15 minutes to avoid overwhelming them. When they complete an English langauage assessment, they’re given the option to create a TestGorilla profile to see their results.
Companies can add their own logo and colors to their assessments to create a sense of professionalism. You can also record custom intros or outro videos to give applicants a warm welcome and a taste of your company culture.
Ensize doesn’t explicitly indicate how it enhances the candidate experience. However, Ensize’s tests are simple, which could encourage candidates to complete their assessments. For example, the HOW Index® test asks the applicant to rate their agreement or disagreement with a described workplace situation on a scale of 1 to 6.
| TestGorilla | Ensize |
Your company’s intro or outro video | Yes | N/A |
Assessments branded with your company logo and colors | Yes | Yes |
Customizable invitation and rejection emails | Yes | Unknown |
No login required for candidates | Yes | Yes |
Mobile friendly | Yes | Yes |
Help and support for your candidates | Yes | No |
Typical assessment length | 45 mins | Unknown |
Knockout questions prior to assessment (to filter out unqualified candidates) | Yes | No |
Pre-employment assessment platforms often use specific features to suit the hiring needs of both small startups and large enterprises.
ATS integrations, APIs, and GDPR compliance make the platforms customizable and scalable and support international hiring campaigns.
TestGorilla integrates with over 15 ATS platforms, so you can track data for all open jobs and applicants in one place. Our bulk actions feature enables you to easily communicate with candidates and select multiple candidates across pages, among other things.
With multiple affordable pricing plans, TestGorilla can grow with your business. Our Free plan helps even the smallest startups make new hires, while tiered subscriptions let you hire thousands – or even tens of thousands – of applicants.
Enterprises also have the option of using TestGorilla’s own API for custom integrations.
Ensize is GDPR compliant, though the platform doesn’t reveal whether it offers ATS integration or an API. It does have an online training center where managers can find resources to help build on employee strengths.
Large companies can also send out employee surveys with Ensize to track employee satisfaction and seek general feedback or training suggestions.
Smaller companies may wish to use the DISC MD (Multi-dimension) assessment, which evaluates behavioral styles to ensure smaller teams can work together.
For international hiring, Ensize is available in all major European languages, including French, English, Spanish, Swedish, Dutch, and German.
| TestGorilla | Ensize |
ATS integration | Yes | Unknown |
Multiple users and role-based rights management | Yes | Yes |
GDPR compliant | Yes | Yes |
Multiple candidate invitation options | Yes | Unknown |
Public links to invite candidates | Yes | Unknown |
Public links for each candidate source | Yes | Unknown |
Bulk invite candidates (CSV/XLSX upload) | Yes | Unknown |
Track candidate stages from invited to hired | Yes | Unknown |
API access | Yes | N/A |
Bulk actions to manage candidates | Yes | N/A |
A top pre-employment assessment platform will use a range of quality-control measures to ensure you’re confident in your pre-employment assessments and the candidate data you gather.
These measures may include frequently updating questions or running quality checks before tests go live.
TestGorilla uses a rigorous 28-step process to ensure quality control. Before each test goes live, it’s carefully reviewed by psychometricians, copywriters, subject-matter experts, sample testers, and other professionals.
Even after a test is live, TestGorilla continues to try to improve the candidate and employer experience by seeking out and acting on feedback. We’re also always introducing new features, tests, and questions to give you more ways to hire effectively.
Ensize doesn’t share its specific quality-control measures, though it has worked with psychologists, business developers, and behavioral scientists to develop its platform and resources.
Ensize focuses mostly on DISC assessments, which were developed by psychologist William Moulton Marston in the 1920s. While some research supports the accuracy of DISC assessments, customers should be aware that there are some criticisms, too.
For example, some researchers found that tests like Ensize’s DISC MD, which ask candidates to choose adjectives to describe their personality, have limited validity, and are unlikely to help recruiters find the most suitable employees if used in isolation.
| TestGorilla | Ensize |
Proprietary algorithms that continuously improve the quality of each test | Yes | Unknown |
Extensive quality checks before tests go live | Yes | Unknown |
Questions replaced after reaching exposure limit | Yes | Unknown |
Customer feedback used to improve tests | Yes | Yes |
Test-taker feedback used to improve tests | Yes | Unknown |
Anti-cheating measures are necessary to ensure all your candidates get a fair chance at the pre-employment assessment.
By minimizing the risk of dishonest behavior, these measures also mean you can be confident in making a hiring decision based on the results.
TestGorilla uses a suite of anti-cheating measures to ensure the assessment experience is fair for all candidates. For example, the platform disables copy-paste and enables you to set time limits on questions to discourage applicants from looking up answers.
TestGorilla also prevents applicants from signing up as test users to get a peek at questions, by requiring a business email address for all employer accounts.
With an applicant’s permission, you can also take screenshots of their webcam during the assessment to check they’re working alone. And to protect the validity of our tests and avoid questions leaking online, we replace all test questions after a certain number of uses.
Ensize doesn’t disclose its specific anti-cheating features, but the nature of its tests makes it difficult for applicants to cheat as there are typically no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ answers.
For example, Ensize’s most popular product is DISC MD, which evaluates behavioral styles. The test contains 28 groups of words. In each group, the test-taker chooses two adjectives – one that best fits them and one that’s least applicable.
| TestGorilla | Ensize |
IP-address logging (to avoid multiple attempts by the same candidate) | Yes | N/A |
Logging of a candidate’s location | Yes | N/A |
Webcam snapshots (with the option to turn on/off) | Yes | N/A |
Full-screen mode detection (to avoid research during the test) | Yes | N/A |
Randomized questions per test | Yes | N/A |
Large question pool for each test | Yes (100+) | N/A |
Questions and answers not visible to employers to protect test integrity | Yes | N/A |
Time limit on tests | Yes (typically 15 minutes) | Unknown |
Copy-paste disabled | Yes | N/A |
Reporting tools and analytics are vital to help you make sense of your assessment data. They can also help you share candidate results with your hiring team so you can work together to pick the right applicant.
TestGorilla makes it easy to rank candidates by test scores or create reports for individual applicants. These summarize how each applicant did on each test question and how they scored overall.
TestGorilla has introduced new filters that simplify comparing candidates based on test scores, custom question responses, and multiple-choice answers.
You can download reports as PDF, XLSX, or CSV files to share with your team or export the results to your ATS. Candidate PDF Reports also provide detailed insights into candidates' strengths and weaknesses in specific areas.
Everyone on your team can make notes on TestGorilla reports, so you can share impressions about candidates or ideas for interview questions.
Ensize displays candidates’ test results individually or as part of a group report for several applicants. Each report gives results for conscious behavior and inadvertent, or adapted, behavior, and suggests areas for development.
Users can also download and brand reports for different assessments in the Ensize platform and share these with their team, employees, or candidates.
There’s also the option to create a word cloud for assessments to visualize the words that best describe an applicant.
| TestGorilla | Ensize |
PDF reports of assessments and individual candidates | Yes | Yes |
Excel and CSV reports of assessments and individual candidates | Yes | No (but reports can be shared in their portal) |
Comprehensive overview of all current and past candidates | Yes | Unknown |
Scoring benchmarks for candidates (including percentile rank scoring) | Yes | Unknown |
Add your ratings and personal notes for candidates | Yes | Unknown |
Reporting by candidate source | Yes | Yes |
Candidate anonymization | No | Unknown |
Detailed funnel and candidate analytics | Yes | No |
Look for a pre-employment assessment platform that offers support through chat, email, or phone to help you and your candidates make the most of every feature.
TestGorilla offers customer support by live chat and email. You can also turn to the robust online help center to learn how to create assessments and use all the features.
Plus, when you sign up with TestGorilla, you get a free 45-minute onboarding tour with one of our friendly team members so you can hit the ground running.
Ensize has an online web form that users can fill out with any questions and there are phone numbers for various countries if you need support.
Before getting started with Ensize assessments, employers need certification and training from the company on how to use DISC assessments. Ensize doesn’t reveal whether there’s an additional cost for the training, but the process appears to be country-specific.
The company also offers online workshops on creating and using assessments.
| TestGorilla | Ensize |
Live chat | Yes | No |
Help center | Yes | Yes |
Email support | Yes | Yes |
Training and onboarding tour | Yes | Yes |
Phone assistance | No | Yes |
Many pre-employment assessment tools use a monthly or yearly subscription model, where the price depends on how many users and features you need.
TestGorilla has three pricing plans for you to choose from. Pricing scales depending on the number of full-time equivalent employees (FTEs) you have. One FTE could be one person working 40 hours a week, two people each working 20 hours a week, or four people each working 10 hours a week, etc.
Free forever at $0: Full access to five free tests and five custom questions no matter your company’s size.
Starter from $75 USD per month ($900 per year paid upfront for companies with 1-15 FTEs) - total access to TestGorilla’s test library and custom question features.
Pro from $115 USD per month ($1,380 per year paid upfront for companies with 1-15 FTEs) - get access to everything in the Starter plan plus advanced features like custom tests and coding challenges, ATS integration, video questions, and more.
Companies with 50+ FTEs get a 15-day free trial and can choose from annual or monthly billing. However, companies with under 15 FTEs are automatically put on an annual subscription.
Ensize doesn’t offer any information about its pricing options. Employers must contact the company directly for a quote.
TestGorilla | Ensize | |
Plan | Price | Contact Ensize for a quote |
Free | $0 | |
Starter | From $75 USD per month ($900 per year paid upfront for 1-15 FTEs) | |
Pro | From $115 USD per month ($1,380 per year paid upfront for companies with 1-15 FTEs) |
Easy navigation and user-friendly design are important to make the user experience seamless for your hiring team and candidates.
TestGorilla is highly intuitive right from the start. Just enter the role you’re hiring for and TestGorilla will recommend relevant tests. Easily add custom questions and send a private invitation or public link to many candidates at once.
Applicants don’t need to download anything to get started. They can just open the link and start the assessment from any device.
During the hiring process, you can use TestGorilla’s communication tools to keep applicants up-to-date and engaged.
Ensize’s assessments are all pre-prepared, so you simply choose whether you want to test candidates’ motivation or behavior.
Through Ensize’s portal, users can manage multiple assessments online without needing to download software. Once you make a hire, employees can also access training from the same portal to focus on their professional development.
Find out what sets TestGorilla apart in hiring. Sign up for our free plan and access comprehensive tools for effective candidate screening.
TestGorilla and Ensize both offer pre-employment screening tools, but TestGorilla focuses on recruitment while Ensize prioritizes testing employees you’ve already hired.
In addition, TestGorilla provides a full picture of each candidate by enabling you to test job-specific skills, such as specific software or coding language proficiency, communication style, personality, behavioral traits, and much more.
In contrast, Ensize focuses solely on candidates’ behavior, motivation, and ability to integrate with a team. While these are useful insights, they won’t help you understand applicants’ technical or job-specific skills.
What’s more, some of Ensize’s features, such as employee surveys and employee training, are relevant only after the hiring process is complete. This means you may be paying for many features you won’t use.
Ultimately, TestGorilla stands out for many reasons, but its extensive anti-cheating measures and quality-control process solidify its top position.
Skills-based hiring lets you reduce human bias in the hiring process by giving you an objective measurement of a candidate’s ability to do a job.
Pre-employment testing also saves you a lot of time. You can forget about guessing and instead produce reports that give you a clear breakdown of which candidates may be best – and why.
TestGorilla helps you find the right hire by giving you the features and customization options for every specific role. Check out our plans today to revolutionize your hiring process.
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