Unbiased TestGorilla Review

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Bojan Maric

Mar 30, 2022

Bojan Maric

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TestGorilla Reviewed by Hiring Managers

Their Beginnings

TestGorilla was founded in 2019 by Wouter Durville in Barcelona, Spain and Otto Verhage in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Before TestGorrila, both Wouter & Otto worked at Bain & Company. TestGorilla has raised more than $10m since their founding with about 65 employees.

Customers

TestGorilla has a nice set of logos including:

H&M
Oracle
Publicis Group
Bain & Company
Technicolor
Majorel

Key Features

Flexible File Uploads
Cheating Prevention
Positive Candidate Experience
Mobile Friendly
Simple

Integrations

TestGorilla integrates with a limited amount of ATS partners. ATS integration is important for enterprise organizations with legacy hiring systems that TestGorilla must play nicely with. TestGorrila indicates more ATS integration parents are coming in 2022.

Greenhouse
SmartRecruiters
Lever
JazzHR
Recruitee

TestGorilla Pricing

TestGorilla’s pricing is not entirely clear, which we believe reflects their enterprise focus.

It makes it hard to compare their pricing to their competitors such as Workello, Vervoe, iMocha, Mettl, or EvalGround.

See TestGorilla’s current pricing .

TestGorilla Versus Workello

Feature	TestGorilla	Workello
Assessment Builder	X	X
Template library	X	X
Candidate Messaging	X	X
Anti-cheating capabilities	X	coming soon
Reporting	X	X
Candidate status page	X	X
Great candidate experience	X	X
Free trial	X	X
Start accepting candidates in 30 seconds		X
Introductory plan (paid annually)	$???	$499/year
Most expensive plan (paid annually)	$???	$499/year

Why Workello is a good alternative to TestGorilla

Workello enables content team to centralize, evaluate, and assess content writers, SEO writers, copywriters – or any other type of writer. Workello is built by a team of hiring managers that have hired hundreds of writers. We’ve been where you are, and we’ve got the entire playbook to build and ramp your content team.

SMBs love Workello’s hiring and people ops training university, startups love that they can start assessing candidates in less than 3 minutes, and mid-size organizations appreciate that they can use Workello to hire writers without looping in HR.

How Workello works

It only takes three minutes to signup and start assessing candidates. Here’s how you can try Workello for free:

Signup to Workello for free
Approve your pre-configured job ad, writing assessment and candidate messages in less than three minutes
Get 200 candidates in 72 hours
Hire the top 1%

Questions to ask before choosing an assessment platform

After we buy, what does the onboarding process look like?
Do you need to integrate your assessment platform into an existing ATS?
What does my reporting look like?
How customizable are the assessments?
Are emails sent from my domain or yours? If yours, what are your delivery rates and open rates?
I need help in XYZ areas, can you tell me about my customer success manager and to what level they can support me?
Show me how our recruiting team will post jobs, send sand evaluate tests, interview candidates and make hires
How does this system positively impact the candidate experience?
Do I need specific integrations?
Would you benefit from a hiring university to teach you how to hire, onboard and manage writers?
Show me how the candidate experiences the product

Other TestGorilla Alternatives / Competitors

Want to keep looking? Here are a few other TestGorilla alternatives we found.

TestGorilla in the Press

Overall

We admire TestGorilla’s impact on the People Ops conversation around assessment based recruiting. TestGorilla has helped global organizations test and assess tens of thousands of candidates, saving hiring managers likely millions of hours.

If you want to start assessing candidates in less than 3 minutes, for free – sign up for Workello.com.

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