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Updated on: July 31, 2024

TestGorilla vs. Talentoday

TestGorilla staff

Don’t leave hiring the best talent to chance

Finding new talent for your business can be challenging and time-consuming, and the hiring process can sometimes lead to mistakes, biases, and missed opportunities. 

However, a pre-employment screening platform can help you find the right person for any open position within your organization.

Pre-employment software offers tools for conducting in-depth analyses of each candidate’s skills and qualities, allowing you to quickly build a shortlist of applicants to interview.

To get the most benefit from pre-employment testing, you need a platform that supports your business’s specific hiring needs. Two popular options are TestGorilla and Talentoday. We compare them in-depth in this guide.

How does TestGorilla work?

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TestGorilla is a powerful talent assessment platform that enables you to screen candidates across a wide range of technical skills and soft qualities.

TestGorilla has 400+ tests covering everything from cognitive ability to programming skills and beyond. You can gain insights into a candidate’s personality, job-specific qualifications, and more.

TestGorilla is compatible with most major applicant tracking (ATS) tools, making it easy to track candidates from application to hire. It fits seamlessly into your organization’s existing hiring workflow and lets you compare candidates side-by-side.

TestGorilla offers a free plan with unlimited access to five tests. Businesses that want access to our full test library and candidate evaluation tools can choose from two affordable, scalable paid plans.

How does Talentoday work?

Talentoday is a pre-employment screening software that evaluates the personality traits of current employees and job applicants. It offers only a single assessment that generates insights into qualities like patience, critical thinking, and empathy.

Talentoday lets you co-analyze the personality traits of two individuals to see whether they intersect positively or negatively. This can help you determine whether a candidate is a good fit for an existing team or whether applicants for related roles might work well together.

Talentoday has an API but doesn’t offer premade integrations for popular ATS or HR software.

Its subscription plans are priced based on the number of personality profiles you want to create, so the software can be expensive for growing companies that hire frequently. Talentoday doesn’t offer a free plan.

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TestGorilla vs. Talentoday: Test libraries

Your software’s test library determines what skills and qualities you can assess in a candidate. Businesses can benefit from having access to a larger test library with tests covering many different topics.

TestGorilla’s test library

TestGorilla's new test library screenshot

TestGorilla has an expansive library comprising 400+ tests across categories such as:

  • Personality and culture

  • Cognitive ability

  • Situational judgment

  • Software skills

  • Programming skills, like Kotlin Coding and Computer System Architecture

  • Language proficiency

  • Job-specific skills, such as those an AI Product Manager needs

You can combine up to five tests to build a custom candidate assessment. TestGorilla automatically recommends tests based on the title of your open role, but you can also enter a skill or role to find recommended tests

TestGorilla also enables you to add custom questions to any assessment. Question and answer formats include multiple-choice, text, audio, video, and file upload.

All our tests are available in 12 languages: English, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish. This helps with international hiring campaigns and hiring for remote positions.

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Talentoday’s test library

Talentoday offers only one assessment with a fixed set of questions. 

The assessment is designed to evaluate a candidate’s personality traits, cultural fit, and work motivation. You can’t add custom questions, and there are no technical or hard skills questions.

However, the test is available in English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian.

Test libraries: Comparison chart at a glance

TestGorilla

Talentoday

Cognitive ability tests

Yes

Yes

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

No

TestGorilla vs. Talentoday: Functionalities for hiring developers

Developers play an integral role in maintaining your company’s internal systems and building software products. 

If you need to hire developers, it’s important to choose pre-employment screening software that can evaluate candidates’ coding and software skills.

Hiring developers with TestGorilla

TestGorilla offers more than 85 programming skills tests. They cover languages such as C++, JavaScript, Python, PHP, Ruby, and more.

TestGorilla has multiple tests for popular languages such as Python. For example, you can evaluate applicants’ skills in specific Python libraries like Pandas, NumPy, and Scikit-learn.

We also offer tests to help you evaluate developers’ fluency in building mobile apps, websites, and smart contracts. You can add custom coding or debugging challenges to any assessment.

In addition, TestGorilla has more than 50 software skills tests. These cover popular platforms, such as Excel, WooCommerce, Salesforce, Power BI, and more. We also have a language-agnostic coding test that supports 20+ languages and allows test-takers to write in their preferred one.

With the test-taker’s permission, you can view snapshots during programming and software skills tests to see how they approach problems.

Hiring developers with Talentoday

Talentoday doesn’t offer programming or software skills tests.

Functionalities for hiring developers: Comparison chart at a glance

TestGorilla

Talentoday

Coding languages

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

None

Web-development frameworks

Yes

No

Mobile-development frameworks

Yes

No

Algorithmic-thinking challenges

Yes

No

Integrated Development Environment (IDE), with features to boost efficiency and accuracy

Yes

No

Language-agnostic coding test

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. Talentoday: Video interviews

One-way video interviews require candidates to record their responses in the form of a video. 

Asynchronous video features can provide much more information about a candidate’s personality or approach to problem-solving compared with traditional answer formats, such as multiple-choice selections.

TestGorilla’s video interviews

You can add custom one-way video interview questions to any assessment in TestGorilla and pose interview questions through text, audio, or video prompts.

Candidates have three attempts to record their answers, and we enable you to limit the length of candidates’ video responses to 30, 60, or 120 seconds. 

You can review video interviews on any device, from laptops to tablets to smartphones. Plus, it’s easy to leave notes or rate video responses so you can review candidates collaboratively with your whole hiring team.

Talentoday’s video interviews

Talentoday doesn’t offer any video interview features, and you can’t ask candidates to record video responses to any test questions.

Video interviews: Comparison chart at a glance

TestGorilla

Talentoday

One-way video interviews

Yes

No

Custom video questions

Yes

No

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 video answers

Yes

N/A

TestGorilla vs. Talentoday: Candidate experience and company branding

Providing a good hiring experience for your candidates is crucial for your brand image among potential recruits. You want strong applicants to apply again in the future and to recommend your company to other job-seekers.

Your pre-employment testing process will be among the first interactions candidates have with your business. So, the software you choose needs to be user-friendly and reflect well on your organization.

The candidate experience with TestGorilla

TestGorilla offers a pre-employment screening experience that candidates and companies will love.

Hiring managers and recruiters can send personalized invitations to applicants to ask them to take an assessment. Candidates don’t need to create a TestGorilla account, but those taking English-language assessments will be invited to create one and view their results. 

Test-takers can access assessments on any device at any time. You may also enable them to see a test preview to get a glimpse of the type of questions they’ll be asked.

Each test in TestGorilla’s library takes roughly 10-15 minutes to complete, and full assessments usually take 45 minutes from start to finish. 

TestGorilla also lets you create qualifying questions so that candidates who don’t meet the criteria for your job won’t spend time completing a full assessment.

Additionally, TestGorilla enables you to add your company’s logo and brand colors to your assessments to make them stand out. You can also add a custom intro or outro video to introduce your company or thank candidates for their time. 

The candidate experience with Talentoday

Talentoday enables you to send personalized invitations to candidates. Applicants must create a Talentoday account to access the assessment, which they can attempt on any device.

Talentoday’s personality assessment takes 20-30 minutes to complete. There are no qualifying questions to determine if an applicant is eligible for your job before they take the test.

The platform offers an online knowledge base for applicants, but support is available by email only.

Users with a Business Package can set up a branded welcome page, but this isn’t available with lower-level packages. Additionally, you can’t include a custom video in the assessment.

Candidate experience and company branding: Comparison chart at a glance

TestGorilla

Talentoday

Your company’s intro or outro video

Yes

No

Assessments branded with your company logo and colors

Yes

No (but Business Package includes option for branded welcome page) 

Customizable invitation and rejection emails

Yes

Yes

No login required for candidates

Yes

No

Help and support for your candidates

Yes

Yes

Typical assessment length

45 minutes

20-30 minutes

Qualifying questions prior to assessment

Yes

No

Test preview

Yes

No

TestGorilla vs. Talentoday: Enterprise and startup friendliness

Small businesses and large enterprises alike need to hire talented employees to stay competitive. 

The pre-employment screening software you choose should be suitable for businesses of all sizes and flexible enough to grow with your business as your hiring needs change.

TestGorilla’s enterprise and startup friendliness

TestGorilla offers several affordable plans to meet different hiring needs.

For small businesses that only hire new employees occasionally, we offer a free-forever plan that includes unlimited access to five tests.

Businesses that hire more frequently or want access to all our tests can choose from two tiered plans. 

Our platform works with popular ATS solutions, including SmartRecruiters, Personio, JazzHR, and Workable. You can also use TestGorilla’s built-in API to integrate with your company’s in-house hiring software.

TestGorilla helps companies making a large hiring push keep track of candidates. You can create a unique invitation link for each online job board you use and send invitations to applicants in bulk.

Companies can also use TestGorilla to recruit talent from abroad, as our tests are available in 12 languages.

Talentoday’s enterprise and startup friendliness

Talentoday has multiple pricing options based on the number of candidates and employees you want to assess. The software can quickly become expensive if you want to evaluate many job applicants or your company is making a significant hiring push.

Invitations to take an assessment must be sent individually to candidates, as there are no bulk invite options. Talentoday also doesn’t support premade integrations with ATS platforms. However, you can build your own integrations using the Talentoday API.

Talentoday’s assessment is available in six languages, supporting international recruitment.

Enterprise and startup friendliness: Comparison chart at a glance

TestGorilla

Talentoday

ATS integration

Yes

No

Multiple users and role-based rights management

Yes

Yes

GDPR compliant

Yes

Yes

Multiple candidate invitation options

Yes

No

Public links to invite candidates

Yes

No

Public links for each candidate source

Yes

No

Bulk invite candidates (CSV/XLSX upload)

Yes

No

Track candidate stages from invited to hired

Yes

No

API access

Yes

Yes

Bulk actions to manage candidates

Yes

No

TestGorilla vs. Talentoday: Quality control

Quality-control measures ensure your pre-employment tests are science-backed and professionally designed.

TestGorilla’s quality-control processes

TestGorilla's new quality control screenshot

TestGorilla’s tests are designed based on the latest scientific data. They are reviewed by subject-matter experts, peer reviewers, copywriters, and sample testers. Our 28-step quality-control process ensures our tests are accurate and effective.

In addition, we strive to continually improve the quality of our tests using proprietary algorithms and feedback from hiring teams and candidates. Our tests are continuously reviewed and updated to ensure they meet our customers' evolving needs and exceed industry standards.

Lastly, our questions are replaced after a certain number of exposures.

Talentoday’s quality-control processes

Talentoday’s assessment is designed using data-backed psychometric standards. Members of the American Psychological Association and the International Test Commission have validated the test.

Talentoday doesn’t replace its questions based on exposure. It also doesn’t modify its test based on customer or candidate feedback.

Quality control: Comparison chart at a glance

TestGorilla

Talentoday

Proprietary algorithms that continuously improve the quality of each test

Yes

No

Extensive quality checks before tests go live

Yes

Yes

Questions reviewed and updated to limit exposure

Yes

No

Customer feedback used to improve tests

Yes

No

Test-taker feedback used to improve tests

Yes

No

TestGorilla vs. Talentoday: Anti-cheating measures

Anti-cheating measures prevent candidates from gaining an unfair advantage during the pre-employment testing process. This is particularly important for skills tests so you can directly compare candidates based on their performance.

TestGorilla’s anti-cheating measures

TestGorilla offers several anti-cheating measures to keep candidates honest during assessments. Our anti-cheating features include:

  • Continued review and updating of questions, which helps prevent candidates from anticipating what questions they might be asked.

  • Randomizing questions for each test. Each test includes a bank of more than 100 questions, of which only a fraction is used per assessment.

  • Disabling copy and paste. This prevents candidates from plagiarizing answers from outside sources and leaking questions online.

  • Enabling time limits and deadlines on tests. This prevents candidates from being able to conduct research and finish on time.

  • Enabling full-screen tracking and alerting hiring managers if a candidate leaves the test window. This could indicate that the applicant is researching answers.

  • Taking webcam snapshots of a candidate during an assessment. This requires the applicant’s permission to access their webcam.

  • Tracking test-takers’ IP addresses. This prevents candidates from attempting a test multiple times.

Talentoday’s anti-cheating measures

Talentoday doesn’t offer any anti-cheating measures. This is partly because the platform’s assessment evaluates a candidate’s personality rather than their proficiency at specific tasks or skills.

Anti-cheating measures: Comparison chart at a glance

TestGorilla

Talentoday

IP-address logging (to avoid multiple attempts by the same candidate)

Yes

No

Logging of a candidate’s location

Yes

No

Webcam snapshots (with the option to turn on/off)

Yes

No

Full-screen mode detection (to avoid research during the test)

Yes

No

Randomized questions per test

Yes

No

Large question pool for each test

Yes (100+)

No

Questions and answers not visible to employers to protect test integrity

Yes

No

Time limit on tests

Yes (typically 10 minutes)

No

Copy-paste disabled

Yes

No

TestGorilla vs. Talentoday: Reporting and analytics

Flexible and insightful reporting tools enable you to make hiring decisions based on the results of your pre-employment assessments. Your software’s reporting tools should enable you to evaluate candidates in-depth and compare them side-by-side.

TestGorilla’s reporting and analytics features

TestGorilla's new reporting and analytics screenshot

TestGorilla offers a detailed report for each candidate that breaks down how they performed on your assessment. 

You can see their overall score, as well as scores for each test and their responses to individual questions. You can also compare an applicant’s performance against the average for each test.

To help you decide which candidates to invite for an interview, TestGorilla enables you to rank and filter applicants based on their performance. You can also compare two candidates head-to-head (based on factors such as test scores, responses to custom questions, and answers to multiple-choice questions) and add comments to candidate reports.

You can export reports in PDF, XLSX, and CSV format. You can also export data to an integrated ATS platform.

Talentoday’s reporting and analytics features

Talentoday offers two reports for each candidate. A one-page report offers a visual breakdown of an applicant’s personality traits, such as patience, empathy, and ambition. 

A more detailed report provides further information about each applicant’s personality type and how their trait scores compare on average.

In addition, Talentoday offers example interview questions for employers to use based on a candidate’s personality.

Reports are available in PDF format only and can’t be exported to Excel. You also can’t add notes to reports.

Reporting and analytics: Comparison chart at a glance

TestGorilla

Talentoday

PDF reports of assessments and individual candidates

Yes

Yes

Excel and CSV reports of assessments and individual candidates

Yes

No

Comprehensive overview of all current and past candidates

Yes

No

Scoring benchmarks for candidates (including percentile rank scoring)

Yes

Yes

Add your ratings and personal notes for candidates

Yes

No

TestGorilla vs. Talentoday: Customer support

A responsive customer support team can prevent delays in your hiring process. The pre-employment hiring software you choose should provide support not only for your company but also for candidates taking an assessment.

TestGorilla’s customer support

TestGorilla offers customer support by email and live chat for both businesses and applicants.

In addition, all TestGorilla users have access to our online help center. This includes tutorials explaining how to craft an assessment, insert custom questions, use reports, and so much more.

TestGorilla also offers training and onboarding sessions for all new customers.

Talentoday’s customer support

Talentoday offers customer support by phone, email, and live chat for businesses and candidates.

There’s also an online help center, although the tutorials are relatively brief. New customers don’t receive an onboarding tour.

Customer support: Comparison chart at a glance

TestGorilla

Talentoday

Live chat

Yes

Yes

Help center

Yes

Yes

Email support

Yes

Yes

Training and onboarding tour

Yes

No

TestGorilla vs. Talentoday: Pricing

Common pricing models for pre-employment screening software include annual subscriptions and pay-as-you-go plans. Your software provider should offer multiple pricing options to suit different hiring needs.

TestGorilla’s pricing

TestGorilla's new pricing screenshot

TestGorilla offers three pricing options with no hidden extra costs. Pricing is based on the number of full-time equivalent employees (FTEs) you have. For instance, one worker at 40 hours per week or two workers at 20 hours each per week is one FTE.

  • Free forever at $0: Full access to five tests and five custom questions for companies of any size.

Depending on the size of your company, paid plans begin with:

  • Starter from $75 USD per month ($900 per year paid upfront for businesses with 1-15 FTEs). Full access to TestGorilla’s test library and custom question features.

  • Pro from $115 USD per month ($1,380 per year paid upfront for businesses with 1-15 FTEs). Maximize your hiring with access to all features in the Starter plan, plus ATS integrations, custom branding options, and video question features.

Teams of 15 or fewer FTEs must subscribe to an annual plan, but all plans include testing for unlimited candidates. Additionally, teams of 50+ FTEs can take advantage of our 15-day free trial. 

Talentoday’s pricing

Talentoday’s pricing varies based on the number of applicants you wish to test. You can test up to 10 candidates for $400 per year or up to 100 for $3,000 per year. To sign up for a plan, you must contact Talentoday for a custom quote.

All plans include one seat for a hiring manager or recruiter. Additional seats are available for $250 per year each.

Talentoday offers a 15-day free trial but no free plan.

Pricing: Comparison chart at a glance

TestGorilla

Talentoday

Plan

Price 

Plan

Price

Free

$0

No free plan

Starter

From $75 USD per month ($900 per year paid upfront for companies with 1-15 FTEs)

Discovery

$400 per year

Pro

From $115 USD per month ($1,380 per year paid upfront for companies with 1-15 FTEs)

Business

$3,000 per year

TestGorilla vs. Talentoday: Ease of use

A good user experience is key to ensuring that your hiring team is excited to use your pre-employment screening software. The platform you choose should be easy to learn and offer tools to streamline the recruitment process.

TestGorilla’s user interface and ease of use

TestGorilla provides an excellent user experience and has a very short learning curve.

It’s easy to create a new assessment in TestGorilla. Our software will suggest which tests to include based on the title of your open job. You can also add custom questions to any assessment in just a few minutes.

You can use personalized invitations and bulk applicant management tools to share your assessment. You can also place unique links on every site where your job is advertised and integrate TestGorilla with your ATS platform.

After candidates take an assessment, hiring teams can comment directly on reports for collaboration. You can also filter and rank candidates or compare two candidates side-by-side. All of TestGorilla’s reporting tools are intuitive and actionable.

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Talentoday’s user interface and ease of use

Talentoday doesn’t enable you to create custom tests. So, it only takes a few clicks to send an invitation to a candidate to get started. However, Talentoday doesn’t support bulk invitations or integrate with your ATS platform.

Talentoday’s reports are shareable, and the one-page report is very easy to interpret. The software doesn’t enable hiring teams to comment on reports, thereby inhibiting collaboration. However, HR managers can compare candidates based on their personality traits with relative ease.

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Final thoughts: TestGorilla vs. Talentoday

TestGorilla and Talentoday each offer pre-employment screening tests to help you find the best candidate for any open position. For most businesses, TestGorilla can provide more actionable information about applicants.

TestGorilla offers 400+ tests that assess a candidate’s personality traits, job-specific skills, and work culture fit. In contrast, Talentoday offers only a single personality test. TestGorilla also lets you add custom questions to your assessments, which isn’t possible with Talentoday.

TestGorilla has a wide range of pricing options to perfectly suit your company’s hiring load. The platform is easy to use and can integrate seamlessly into the ATS software your business already uses. Plus, TestGorilla has handy features to promote better collaboration within hiring teams.

Overall, TestGorilla is a much more comprehensive option – and the superior choice for talent assessment today.

Streamline your hiring process with pre-employment testing

Pre-employment testing can help you quickly understand what skills and qualities a job candidate will bring to your organization. 

Compared with traditional recruitment processes, such as resume screening and preliminary phone calls, pre-employment testing is invaluable for saving company resources and efficiently deciding who to invite for an interview.

TestGorilla is the right pre-employment testing platform to help you make your next great hire. Sign up for a free 45-minute live demo today and see how we can improve your hiring process!

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