Pre-employment screening is the best way to test a candidate’s proficiency and ensure they are the right fit for your organization.
You can use skills-based tests to remove human bias from the hiring process and consistently hire the best candidates for open positions.
The right pre-employment screening software can help you assess candidates effectively and make data-driven hiring decisions. This guide compares TestGorilla and Toggl Hire so you can choose the best platform for your recruitment needs.
TestGorilla is a pre-employment screening platform that offers more than 400 tests to assess candidates on a wide variety of skills and qualities.
Hiring managers can pick from role-specific skills tests, like proficiency in Salesforce CRM, programming skills, or technical SEO, to match almost any job position. These tests are recommended based on the job role and can be customized.
There are also tests for language, personality, culture, situational judgment, and cognitive ability.
TestGorilla also lets you create custom assessments easily. You can mix and match different tests relevant to the role you’re hiring for and add custom questions to each test when needed.
All our tests are created in consultation with subject-matter experts and undergo robust quality-control measures to remove any bias during the hiring process.
TestGorilla can drive better hiring practices in organizations of all sizes, from startups to large enterprises. Our platform aims to create a collaborative environment where your hiring team can easily communicate with candidates, as well as compare and share their test results.
Toggl Hire is a skills assessment platform with over 250 skills tests. These tests are mapped into 12 core categories for better organization.
Like TestGorilla, Toggl Hire also offers a range of skills tests, including personality tests, culture tests, language tests, and role-specific tests like digital marketing tests. Toggl Hire’s tests are primarily for software development, technical, marketing, and customer support roles.
The platform lets hiring managers add custom questions to existing assessments and create tests from scratch. You can ‘stack’ pre-built assessments that consist of homework tasks, video questions, skills tests, and more for a full picture of your applicant’s skills.
Like TestGorilla, Toggl Hire’s questions are designed by subject matter experts to ensure real-world expertise. The platform is suitable for organizations of all sizes and offers a scalable solution for streamlining the hiring process.
A comprehensive test library helps accurately assess candidate skills and qualities for various roles.
TestGorilla has an extensive library with more than 400 tests (and counting!). Our test categories include:
Cognitive ability
Programming skills
Personality and culture
Software skills
Job-specific skills
Language skills
Situational judgment
Depending on the role you’re hiring for, TestGorilla recommends the most relevant tests to use. You can add custom questions to each of these and combine multiple tests to create insightful assessments.
You can use different question types, including multiple-choice, open-ended, and file uploads.
TestGorilla has localized websites in 11 languages to support global hiring and international recruitment.
Toggl Hire offers more than 250 skills tests. These are divided into 12 main categories:
Technical
Data science & machine learning
Internships
Languages
Human resources
Marketing
Finance
Sales & support
Product & design
Administrative
Personality
IT Security
Hiring managers can use job-role templates to combine tests. For example, the template for Social Media Marketing Manager will contain skills tests for social media, influencer marketing, copywriting, communication, and community management.
Toggl Hire allows you to use different question types to make your next hire. These include homework assignments, video answers, multiple-choice questions, and more.
There are only three language tests on Toggl Hire – English, German, and Spanish – and there are no options to test the different proficiency levels in these languages.
| TestGorilla | Toggl Hire |
Cognitive ability tests | Yes | Yes |
Situational judgment tests | Yes | Yes |
Job-specific tests | Yes | Yes |
Software tests | Yes | Yes |
Programming tests (including coding challenges) | Yes | Yes |
Language tests | Yes (five languages and different proficiency levels) | Yes (three languages) |
Personality tests | Yes | Yes |
Culture-add test | Yes | Yes |
Motivation test | Yes | Yes |
Your own custom tests | Yes | Yes |
Custom questions per assessment | Yes | Yes |
Test recommendations for each job role | Yes | Yes |
Multiple tests per assessment | Yes | Yes |
Programming skills tests can determine whether applicants for developer roles actually have the abilities listed on their resumes and the skills required for the position.
TestGorilla offers more than 80 tests across 16 programming languages to test developer skills. You can also test a candidate’s knowledge of the React Native framework and smart contracts using Solidity.
For a thorough developer assessment, TestGorilla supports custom coding challenges and debugging tests.
TestGorilla speeds up developer assessments by automatically scoring programming tests. Hiring managers can also view candidate screens during the test to see how they solve problems.
Toggl Hire has various tests to assess candidate skills in C, C++, Node.js, Python, SQLite, and other developer roles. However, it doesn’t support custom coding and debugging code tests.
Toggl Hire offers a fully automated screening process. This means they offer automatic score grading and automatic filtering by score. Hiring managers are also able to set a minimum pass score for applicants. The platform then screens the test results to pick the best candidates who scored above that benchmark.
| TestGorilla | Toggl Hire |
Coding languages | Javascript, TypeScript, Python, Java, PHP, C, C++, C#, Ruby, Go, Kotlin, Swift, Scala, R, Dart, Julia, Rust, Perl, Elixir, Erlang | JavaScript, Java, Python, PHP, C, C#, C++, SQL, Ruby, Kotlin, React, TypeScript, Swift, Go, Vue.js, and Elixir |
Web-development frameworks | Yes | Yes |
Mobile-development frameworks | Yes | Yes |
Algorithmic-thinking challenges | Yes | Yes |
Debugging challenges | Yes | No |
Language-specific concept challenges | Yes | Yes |
Your own custom coding challenges | Yes | No |
Code-playback function | Yes | No |
Automated scoring | Yes | Yes |
Live peer coding | No | No |
Video interviews reduce time to hire and enable hiring managers to see a candidate’s personality, cultural fit, and problem-solving skills. They also help determine the best candidates to proceed to the next stage of the hiring process.
TestGorilla enables recruiters to add one-way video questions to any test. Candidates must record a video response to answer these questions.
You can limit the amount of recording attempts a candidate can make and the maximum length of their responses to 60, 90, or 120 seconds.
Once a candidate submits their responses, you can watch them on any device. You can rate responses and leave comments to involve the entire hiring team in the process.
Toggl Hire enables recruiters to create video interviews with a maximum of three questions. You can select these questions from its library or create your own.
To ease pre-interview jitters, recruiters can record short intro videos to introduce themselves, the company, and the role.
You can invite candidates to respond using a link. They can submit video responses within the maximum time limit of two minutes. However, Toggl Hire doesn’t record the number of recording attempts made.
Hiring teams can review and rate answers to decide on the ideal candidates. You can also leave comments on the candidate’s responses which the whole hiring team can see.
| TestGorilla | Toggl Hire |
One-way video interview | Yes | Yes |
Custom video questions | Yes | Yes |
Record the number of candidates’ attempts | Yes | No |
Restrict maximum answer length | Yes | Yes |
Record and playback on any device | Yes | Yes |
Rate and comment video answers | Yes | Yes |
A good hiring experience encourages candidates to choose your company over competitors. This is important when trying to recruit top talent who may have offers from multiple companies.
Many candidates believe that their experience during the hiring process reflects how a company treats its employees. Therefore, a poor experience could turn them away.
Branding also creates a memorable hiring experience and boosts your company image.
TestGorilla provides an exceptional candidate experience. Our mobile-friendly platform lets candidates take tests anytime, from anywhere.
TestGorilla removes obstacles and encourages higher completion rates by enabling candidates to attempt tests without logging in or creating an account.
All our tests take only 10-15 minutes to complete, while assessments last between 30-60 minutes. This is a reasonable timeframe for most candidates and is better than asking them to write a lengthy cover letter.
Candidates also get access to TestGorilla’s customer support team and help center to answer any doubts quickly.
TestGorilla enables custom branding, along with intro and outro videos. You can also include a redirect link to your website at the end of the assessment.
Our platform also simplifies communication with candidates by updating them on their status through the hiring process and sending out notifications if they are rejected.
The candidate experience with Toggl Hire is straightforward. You can create a skills test and share the link to invite candidate responses. You can also add a short intro video for each assessment.
Candidates can complete the assessment by logging in to the platform, with most assessments on Toggl Hire taking 15 minutes to complete. However, more in-depth assessments can take up to an hour.
Both candidates and hiring managers get instant updates on test results. You can customize the results page to ask for more candidate details and to collect feedback.
Toggl Hire also has communication features like customizable email templates for rejections and invitations to progress to the next stage.
If you’re a business user, Toggle Hire enables you to add a custom link at the end of a candidate’s assessment. This can lead to your home page or another webpage of your choosing.
| TestGorilla | Toggl Hire |
Your company’s intro and/or outro video | Yes | Yes |
Assessments branded with your company logo and colors | Yes | Yes |
Customizable invitation and rejection emails | Yes | Yes |
No login required for candidates | Yes | No |
Mobile friendly | Yes | Yes |
Help and support for candidates | Yes | Yes |
Typical assessment length | 30-60 minutes | 15 minutes |
Qualifying questions prior to assessment | Yes | No data |
Redirect candidates to a URL of your choice after finishing an assessment | Yes | Yes (only for Business users) |
A dynamic pre-employment screening tool that caters to businesses of all sizes is especially helpful to accommodate the growth and changing hiring needs of your company.
Integration with your ATS and features that simplify candidate management are also useful.
TestGorilla helps SMBs and enterprises create an efficient hiring process. We offer payment plans suited to your business size and hiring needs.
Our platform also integrates with most ATS applications, so you can move candidates from one stage of the hiring process to the next without data loss or delays.
Enterprises and large businesses can use the TestGorilla API to build custom integrations with tools they use throughout the hiring process.
TestGorilla has localized websites in 11 languages, making global and remote hiring easier.
Our platform also supports role-based permissions for teams, bulk actions, and bulk invitations to enable HR teams in larger companies to manage candidates easily.
You can also add public links to job advertisements and use a different link for each job board. This can track which source leads to the most applicants and which has the most qualified candidates.
Toggl Hire is ideal for remote hiring and growing companies. The platform facilitates mass recruitment, with its higher-tier plan supporting an unlimited number of candidates per year.
Toggl Hire has native integrations for two ATS applications – Workable and Greenhouse. It has a Public API for custom integrations and supports Zapier and Slack integration.
However, it doesn’t have localized websites or unique public links for different job sites, making it harder to track which source generates the best candidates.
| TestGorilla | Toggl Hire |
ATS integration | Yes | Yes |
Multiple users | Yes | Yes |
Role-based rights management | Yes | Yes |
GDPR compliant | Yes | Yes |
Multiple candidate invitation options | Yes | Yes |
Public links to invite candidates | Yes | Yes |
Public links for each candidate source | Yes | No |
Bulk invite candidates (CSV/XLSX upload) | Yes | Yes |
Track candidate stages from invited to hired | Yes | Yes |
API access | Yes | Yes |
Bulk actions to manage candidates | Yes | Yes |
Strong quality-control measures ensure bias-free screening assessments that accurately gauge a candidate’s technical and soft skills.
TestGorilla is dedicated to creating bias-free screening and data-backed tests.
All our tests are created in consultation with subject-matter experts and must pass through a 28-step quality-control process before they go live.
Test questions are consistently reviewed by experts, peer reviewers, and sample testers, and our platform uses proprietary algorithms to improve quality regularly.
Feedback from hiring managers, candidates, and recruiters is also used to assess and update each test. We also review our test questions continuously to ensure clarity and proper skill assessment.
Toggl Hire’s skills tests are created by leading experts, recruiters, industry professionals, and team leads. Every test question is peer-reviewed by another expert and the Toggl Hire community.
The platform uses built-in candidate feedback and analytics to monitor tests, identify underperforming questions, and update them.
| TestGorilla | Toggl Hire |
Proprietary algorithms that continuously improve the quality of each test | Yes | Yes |
Extensive quality checks before tests go live | Yes | Yes |
Questions replaced after reaching exposure limit | Yes | Yes |
Customer feedback used to improve tests | Yes | Yes |
Test-taker feedback used to improve tests | Yes | Yes |
Cheating during assessments disrupts the hiring process. Candidates who cheat can leapfrog more qualified and better-suited applicants in assessments, significantly impacting your company.
Your skills assessment software must have extensive anti-cheating measures to prevent this from happening.
TestGorilla ensures all candidates complete tests fairly by implementing a range of anti-cheating measures. These include:
IP address logging to prevent the same candidate from applying multiple times
Question randomization for every test
Replacement of questions before overexposure
Webcam snapshots during the test (with permission)
Disablement of copy and paste so candidates can’t paste external information
Time limits on tests
Toggl Hire prevents cheating using social verification through LinkedIn, Github, or Facebook and restricts candidates to only one attempt for each test.
The platform randomizes tests so that each applicant will see a different set of questions. Toggl Hire can detect if multiple attempts are made from the same browser and flags candidates that copy test questions or paste answers.
Toggl Hire also flags abnormalities like email similarities or if tests are completed too quickly (in less than five minutes).
| TestGorilla | Toggl Hire |
IP address logging (to avoid multiple attempts by the same candidate) | Yes | Yes |
Logging of a candidate’s location | Yes | Yes |
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 | Yes |
Large question pool for each test | Yes (100+) | Yes (100+) |
Questions and answers not visible to employers to protect test integrity | Yes | No |
Time limit on tests | Yes (typically 10 minutes) | Yes |
Copy-paste disabled | Yes | Yes |
Analytics and reporting features help HR teams rank candidates accurately and can also be used to improve your company’s prescreening process.
TestGorilla provides detailed candidate reports that show the overall performance and results for each test. These reports are available in PDF, XLSX, and CSV formats, which simplify sharing and improve collaboration.
Our platform automatically ranks candidates based on scoring benchmarks and enables recruiters to add ratings and notes for each candidate. You can also view detailed reports of all current and past candidates.
Toggl Hire creates reports for candidate experience, feedback, test, and question performance. This data helps you assess the different elements within a test.
You also get overall performance statistics for each test to see if it accurately judges candidates.
Recruiting teams can export candidate reports in PDF or CSV formats. However, this isn’t possible for assessment reports. Toggl Hire also doesn’t support exporting in other Excel formats.
| TestGorilla | Toggl Hire |
PDF reports of individual candidates | Yes | Yes |
PDF reports of assessments | Yes | No |
Excel reports of assessments and individual candidates | Yes | No |
CSV reports of assessments | Yes | No |
CSV reports of individual candidates | Yes | Yes |
Comprehensive overview for all current and past candidates | Yes | Yes |
Scoring benchmarks for candidates (including percentile rank scoring) | Yes | Yes |
Add your ratings and personal notes for candidates | Yes | Yes |
Your pre-employment screening platform must have a responsive customer support team. It should also have self-service options, like a help center, and multiple ways to contact support.
TestGorilla offers customer support via live chat and email for all users. They also get access to our online help center, which has guides for both companies and candidates.
All our plans include an onboarding tour to help you get set up and start creating assessments quickly. We also have an extensive blog so you can receive expert advice on hiring and recruitment practices across industries.
Toggl Hire provides email and live chat support. Business and Premium users have a dedicated account manager assigned to them.
Demos and onboarding tours are available for all prospective customers, and one-on-one product training sessions are available upon request. The platform also has an in-app onboarding checklist to help new customers learn to navigate the product.
Toggl Hire has an online support center to answer customer questions. They also have an extensive blog where they discuss how to use personality tests in the hiring process, the importance of using job simulations, and much more.
| TestGorilla | Toggl Hire |
Live chat | Yes | Yes |
Help center | Yes | Yes |
Email support | Yes | Yes |
Training | Yes | Yes |
Onboarding tour | Yes | No |
Your pre-employment screening software must offer advanced, robust features at a reasonable price.
TestGorilla has four pricing options:
The Free plan at $0 is free forever. It offers 10 tests and enables essay and multiple-choice question types.
The Pay as you go plan at $26 per month gives access to all tests and unlimited account users. You can test up to 100 candidates per year.
The Scale plan at $325 per month lets hiring teams test up to 1,500 candidates a year. It includes everything in the Pay as you go plan and also offers custom test creation, advanced user rights management, and ATS integrations.
The Business plan at $2,200 per month includes everything in the Scale plan and also provides API access and an onboarding training program. Companies can test 12,500 candidates per year.
All TestGorilla plans are annual subscriptions. We also offer custom pricing for enterprises and large companies.
Toggl Hire offers four pricing options (billed annually):
The Free plan gives limited access to the question library and enables you to test up to five candidates per year.
The Basic plan at $42 per month gives unlimited access to the test library (but still limited access to the question library), limited anti-cheating measures, and can test up to 20 candidates per year.
The Premium plan at $375 per month includes everything in the Basic plan. You can test up to 300 candidates a year. The plan gives complete access to the test and question libraries, along with ATS integrations, API access, and all anti-cheating measures.
The Business plan at $469 per month includes all the features of the Premium plan and allows recruiters to test unlimited candidates per year. It also offers three training sessions for new users.
Toggl Hire also has monthly plans: Free, Premium ($535 per month), and Business ($670 per month).
TestGorilla |
| Toggl Hire | |
Plan | Price (billed annually) | Plan | Price (billed annually) |
Free | $0 | Free | $0 |
Pay as you go | $26 per month | Basic | $42 per month |
Scale | $325 per month | Premium | $375 per month |
Business | $2,200 per month | Business | $469 per month |
Hiring teams need software with a good user interface to streamline pre-employment screening.
TestGorilla offers a seamless user experience for hiring teams, making test creation effortless.
Hiring managers just need to select a job role, and our platform will recommend the tests to create the perfect assessment. TestGorilla also lets you add custom questions to each test.
You can share assessments with candidates easily via public links. Candidates can complete tests without the need of an account via our mobile-friendly user interface.
Automated scoring and candidate reports boost collaboration within the hiring team and lead to correct data-driven hiring decisions.
Toggl Hire lets recruiters create a test in a few clicks via its job assessment templates. You can post these tests on different platforms using public links.
You can track results and overall candidate progress via a visual dashboard. Toggl Hire lets you set a scoring threshold for tests to eliminate unsuitable candidates.
Candidates must sign in before they complete tests, which adds a hurdle to the screening process.
TestGorilla and Toggl Hire are both great tools for pre-employment screening.
TestGorilla has more than 300 skills tests to assess cognitive ability, programming skills, job-specific skills, and more. You can customize tests and assessments to match hiring criteria.
TestGorilla’s platform automatically ranks candidates, integrates with 15 popular ATS applications, and has an API for custom integrations.
Toggl Hire has around 180 skills tests that are organized into 150 job-specific assessment templates. Toggle Hire is mobile-friendly, has a range of test lengths, and offers robust automation tools. However, it lacks advanced anti-cheating measures, like full-screen mode detection or webcam shots.
TestGorilla is a better choice for pre-employment screening software. It has an extensive skills test library, enables better analytics via reports in several formats, and has robust anti-cheating measures for all its users.
TestGorilla’s platform is built to maintain test integrity and boost collaboration within the hiring team.
Pre-employment screening tests help you accurately judge the skills and qualities of a person before you invite them for a live interview.
These tests help you save time, remove bias from the hiring process, and ensure you get the most-skilled applicants for any open role.
TestGorilla is a top pre-employment screening service that can create effective hiring processes for all companies. Book a free 30-minute live demo to see how our platform can elevate your recruitment pool.
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