Codility vs TalentsAccess

Codility offers Screen, Interview and Skills Intelligence for engineering hiring, technical interviews and workforce skills mapping. Screen provides online technical assessments with objective scores and detailed breakdowns across a library of more than 1,300 tasks. Interview supports live technical interviews in a VS Code environment, including whiteboarding, pair programming, live code execution, recordings and structured evaluation. Skills Intelligence maps engineering capabilities, identifies gaps and supports project staffing and development planning. Teams can configure AI use for each assessment, with tasks on prompt engineering, evaluating AI-generated code and working with AI tools. Codility connects with recruiting and HR systems including Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workday, SAP and SmartRecruiters. Its public API supports invitations, result retrieval, completion alerts and custom reporting, with a limit of 500 requests per user per hour. Codility says its security program is ISO 27001 certified and covered by a SOC 2 Type II report; it also states that data is encrypted in transit and at rest. It states GDPR and CCPA compliance and WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in London.

TalentsAccess is a web-based AI-proctored assessment platform for hiring, exams, and developer upskilling. Users can build tests or select templates with multiple-choice questions and coding challenges in more than 40 languages. Proctoring options include basic webcam AI monitoring and live and AI proctoring that can flag tab switching, another person’s presence, and screen sharing. The site says its plagiarism detection flags copied or AI-generated submissions across test-takers. Reports include scores, proctoring timelines, and skill breakdowns, and can be exported or shared in ATS-ready form. Starter is free forever and permits up to 50 assessments per month. Growth allows up to 200 assessments per month; the plan is listed at $7,963 a month, with $79 monthly or $63/mo billed annually stated in its terms. Professional allows up to 500 assessments per month and is listed at $399,319 a month, with $399 monthly or $319/mo billed annually stated. Enterprise pricing is custom. The privacy policy says camera preview appears during assessments and recordings are not stored; companies set candidate-data retention periods. The company states that it undergoes annual SOC 2 Type II audits and encrypts data in transit and at rest.