TestGorilla vs. Ensize 

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.

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How does TestGorilla work?

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 300 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 in 11 different languages.

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 webcam monitoring and multiple-attempt prevention.

How does Ensize work?

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.

TestGorilla vs. Ensize: Test libraries

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 test library

TestGorilla has over 300 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 pick and choose questions from multiple tests to create a customized assessment for your open role. You can even create completely custom questions and challenges of your own.

Even with so many 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 even choose how you want applicants to answer custom questions, including multiple-choice, open-text, video, and file uploads.

And with localized websites in 11 languages, TestGorilla makes it easy to hire all over the world.

Ensize’s test library

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

Test libraries: Comparison chart at a glance

	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	N/A
Personality tests	Yes	Yes
Culture-add test	Yes	Yes
Motivation test	Yes	Yes
Your own custom tests	Yes	N/A
Custom questions per assessment	Yes	N/A
Test recommendations for each job role	Yes	No
Multiple tests per assessment	Yes	Yes
Assessment templates	Yes	N/A

TestGorilla vs. Ensize: Functionalities for hiring developers

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.

Hiring developers with TestGorilla

TestGorilla offers coding language tests for C++, Python, and 16 popular programming languages in all, as well as tests for frameworks like React Native, so you can measure applicants’ specific skills.

With TestGorilla, you can also create custom coding problems and debugging challenges. Record applicants’ attempts at these tests and rewatch them to see exactly how they work.

TestGorilla automatically grades coding tests to minimize bias and give you objective data about applicants.

Hiring developers with Ensize

Ensize doesn’t have tests to evaluate candidates’ coding ability, or any other developer-specific assessments or technical tests. 

The platform’s DISC assessment does evaluate whether someone is results-driven or analytical, which could be useful when evaluating developers.

Functionalities for hiring developers: Comparison chart at a glance

	TestGorilla	Ensize
Coding languages	JavaScript, Java, Python, PHP, C, C#, C++, SQL, Kotlin, Ruby, TypeScript, Go, R, Scala, React, and Swift	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

TestGorilla vs. Ensize: Video interviews

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’s video interviews

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.

You have total control over asynchronous video questions on your assessments. You can limit video replies to 30 seconds, 60 seconds, or two minutes, and limit how many times candidates can re-record their answers.

Ensize’s video interviews

Ensize doesn’t offer any features that allow for video interviews or video replies in assessments.

Video interviews: Comparison chart at a glance

	TestGorilla	Ensize
One-way video interviews	Yes	No
Custom video questions	Yes	No
Record the number of candidates’ attempts	Yes	No
Restrict maximum answer length	Yes	No
Record and playback on any device	Yes	No
Rate and comment on video answers	Yes	No

TestGorilla vs. Ensize: Candidate experience and company branding

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.

The candidate experience with TestGorilla

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. Most of our tests take less than 15 minutes, to avoid overwhelming candidates.

Companies can add their own logo and colors to their assessments to create a sense of professionalism. You can also record custom intros and outro videos to give applicants a warm welcome and a taste of your company culture. 

The candidate experience with Ensize

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.

Candidate experience and company branding: Comparison chart at a glance

	TestGorilla	Ensize
Your company’s intro and/or outro video	Yes	N/A
Assessments branded with your company logo and colors	Yes	Yes
Customizable invitation and rejection emails	Yes	N/A
No login required for candidates	Yes	N/A
Mobile friendly	Yes	Yes
Help and support for your candidates	Yes	N/A
Typical assessment length	10-50 minutes	N/A
Knockout questions prior to assessment	Yes	N/A

TestGorilla vs. Ensize: Enterprise and startup friendliness

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’s enterprise and startup friendliness

TestGorilla integrates with over 15 ATS platforms, so you can track data for all open jobs and applicants in one place. 

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.

And, if your business grows internationally, TestGorilla has localized websites in 11 languages and is GDPR compliant, so you can hire globally.

Ensize’s enterprise and startup friendliness

Ensize is GDPR compliant, though the platform doesn’t reveal whether they offer ATS integration or API.

Ensize 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.

Enterprise and startup friendliness: Comparison chart at a glance

	TestGorilla	Ensize
ATS integration	Yes	N/A
Multiple users and role-based rights management	Yes	N/A
GDPR compliant	Yes	Yes
Multiple candidate invitation options	Yes	N/A
Public links to invite candidates	Yes	N/A
Public links for each candidate source	Yes	N/A
Bulk invite candidates (CSV/XLSX upload)	Yes	N/A
Track candidate stages from invited to hired	Yes	N/A
API access	Yes	N/A
Bulk actions to manage candidates	Yes	N/A

TestGorilla vs. Ensize: Quality control

A top pre-employment assessment platform will use a range of quality-control measures to enable you to be confident in your pre-employment assessments and the candidate data you gather

These measures may include frequently updating questions or running a series of quality checks before tests go live. 

TestGorilla’s quality-control processes

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’s quality-control processes

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.

Quality control: Comparison chart at a glance

	TestGorilla	Ensize
Proprietary algorithms that continuously improve the quality of each test	Yes	N/A
Extensive quality checks before tests go live	Yes	N/A
Questions replaced after reaching exposure limit	Yes	N/A
Customer feedback used to improve tests	Yes	N/A
Test-taker feedback used to improve tests	Yes	N/A

TestGorilla vs. Ensize: Anti-cheating measures

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’s anti-cheating measures

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’s anti-cheating measures

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.

Anti-cheating measures: Comparison chart at a glance 

	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 10 minutes)	N/A
Copy-paste disabled	Yes	N/A

TestGorilla vs. Ensize: Reporting and analytics

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’s reporting and analytics features

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.

You can download reports as PDF, XLSX, or CSV files to share with your team or export the results to your ATS. 

Everyone on your team can make notes on TestGorilla reports, so you can share impressions about candidates or ideas for interview questions.

Ensize’s reporting and analytics features

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.

Reporting and analytics: Comparison chart at a glance

	TestGorilla	Ensize
PDF reports of assessments and individual candidates	Yes	Yes
Excel and CSV reports of assessments and individual candidates	Yes	N/A (but reports can be shared in the portal)
Comprehensive overview of all current and past candidates	Yes	N/A
Scoring benchmarks for candidates (including percentile rank scoring)	Yes	N/A
Add your ratings and personal notes for candidates	Yes	N/A
Reporting by candidate source	Yes	N/A
Candidate anonymization	No	N/A
Detailed funnel and candidate analytics	To be released in 2023	No

TestGorilla vs. Ensize: Customer support

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’s customer support

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 30-minute onboarding tour with one of our friendly team members so you can hit the ground running.

Ensize’s customer support

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.

Customer support: Comparison chart at a glance

	TestGorilla	Ensize
Live chat	Yes	No
Help center	Yes	No
Email support	Yes	N/A
Training and onboarding tour	Yes	N/A
Phone assistance	No	Yes

TestGorilla vs. Ensize: Pricing

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’s pricing

TestGorilla has four pricing plans for you to choose from, all paid annually:

Free:

• Includes unlimited assessments for 10 tests including English, JavaScript, and Enneagram personality type

Pay as you go:

• $312 per year
• Test up to 100 candidates per year, with access to the full test library

Scale:

• $3,900 per year
• Test up to 1,500 candidates per year
• Integrate with over 15 ATS platforms

Business:

• $26,400 per year
• Test up to 12,500 candidates per year
• Includes API

You can also contact TestGorilla for custom pricing for enterprises.

Ensize’s pricing

Ensize doesn’t offer any information about its pricing options. Employers must contact the company directly for a quote.

Pricing: Comparison chart at a glance

TestGorilla		Ensize
Plan	Price (billed annually)	Contact Ensize for a quote
Free	$0
Pay as you go	$26 per month
Scale	$325 per month
Business	$2,200 per month
Large Enterprise	Custom

TestGorilla vs. Ensize: Ease of use

Easy navigation and user-friendly design are some of the most important features that make the user experience seamless for your hiring team and candidates.

TestGorilla’s ease of use

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 ease of use

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.  

Conclusion: TestGorilla vs Ensize

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.

Streamline your hiring process with pre-employment testing

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.