
Over 80% of the fortune 500 companies use assessment tools as part of their hiring process. Pre-employment assessments tools save anywhere between 30-70% of the per head hiring costs and significantly help reduce bad hiring decisions.
In large scale markets like India and highly technical roles like that of software development or accounting, it is nearly impossible to get by without using these tools. These tools help companies gather objective data about the skillset of the candidates, and take data backed decisions on which candidates to shortlist for further interviews. Such tools are of different types, and can test candidates on the strength of hard skills, soft skills, culture/team fit etc.
In the table below, we are comparing and contrasting two popular tools – HackerRank and SkillCounty to help you decide on which one to use.
Note: Screening tests, hiring tests, pre-hiring tests, employment tests or pre-employment tests literally mean the same thing. So in the article these terms are being used interchangeably.
Features | SkillCounty | HackerRank |
What's Unique? | Wide variety of question types and job roles covered | Large developer community (3M+), primarily students/ fresh grads |
Pricing Plans | Flat $50 per month for unlimited candidates and tests | Individual Platform Plan- 299$/month |
Pricing for 100 Candidates per month | $50 | $1000 |
Coding tests | ✓ | ✓ |
Coding Interviews | ✓ | ✓ |
Aptitude Tests | ✓ | ✓ |
Domain Tests or Skill based tests | ✓ | Only for software development roles |
Psychometric Tests | ✓ | |
Questions of Multiple Levels ( Easy, Medium, Hard) | ✓ | ✓ |
Question type: MCQ / MSQ/ True or False | ✓ | ✓ |
Question type: Case Study or Passage Based | ✓ | |
Question type: Ranking or sorting based | ✓ | |
Question type: Audio / Video questions for one way interviews,Async-Video Interviews | ✓ | |
Question type: Subjective or open ended. | ✓ | ✓ |
Plagiarism or cheating detection | ✓ | ✓ |
Scheduled Tests: Start test for all candidates at same time | ✓ | |
Shuffle questions in tests | ✓ | ✓ |
Custom Questions, Tests & Library | ✓ | ✓ |
Draft & Published Test version seperation | ✓ | ✓ |
Expert curated test & question library | ✓ | ✓ |
Invite candidates with public URL & Email Ids | ✓ | ✓ No public URL invitation |
Share Test Report | ✓ | ✓ |
1-Click Shortlisting & Reporting | ✓ | |
Conduct Live Interviews | ✓ | ✓ |
Support via Phone, Email | ✓ | ✓ Primarily for enterprise customers |