15Five vs PiiQ by Cornerstone | TrustRadius

What users are saying about

Score 8.8 out of 10

Based on 38 reviews and ratings

Score 8.4 out of 10

Based on 64 reviews and ratings

Feature Rating Comparison

15Five

PiiQ by Cornerstone

Corporate goal setting

Subordinate goal setting

Individual goal setting

Line-of sight-visibility

Performance tracking

15Five

PiiQ by Cornerstone

Performance plans

Plan weighting

Manager note taking

Performance improvement plans

Review status tracking

Rater nomination workflow

Review reminders

Workflow restrictions

Multiple review frequency

Reporting

15Five

PiiQ by Cornerstone

Course authoring

Course catalog or library

Player/Portal

Learning content

Mobile friendly

Progress tracking & certifications

Assignments

Compliance management

Learning administration

Learning reporting & analytics

Pros

The technology - 15Five manages all the organization of questions/submissions, and reminders.
Simplicity - 15Five isn't difficult to set up. And all of our users found it very easy to interface with.
Great features - You can add as many answers as you want. You can tag people. You can do a lot with it.

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Engineering Technician

MiraseeHigher Education, 11-50 employees

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Enables employees to draft work goals and collaborate with their supervisors on a final version - improves mutual understanding right up front.
Combines performance goal ratings with competency ratings and provides a blended score. Simplifies the goal weighting so you don't have to do any calculations.
9-box matrix provides useful definitions and descriptions so managers can prepare development notes or plans for individual employees.

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Gene Aldava, SPHR

Director, Human Resources and Administration

Abode CommunitiesReal Estate, 51-200 employees

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Cons

Although I mentioned customization as a positive aspect, it could use some improvements. The backend process of updating the questions, and setting them to a certain schedule, can be a bit confusing. This process could be streamlined.
The commenting process can be a bit confusing. If a person is tagged/mentioned in a comment, they are typically sent an email notifying them. However, it can be difficult to locate where you can reply and continue the conversation. Although a simple issue, it seems it could be easily rectified.
I would like to see more integration of the team portion of 15Five. It seems this feature is not as prominent, so you can easily get stuck in just your specific 15Five information.

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Recruitment Coordinator

Influence & Co.Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees

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Would be good to have have a virtual "top level" (eg board) user built in to allow senior execs without a direct manager to be able to be set up with KPIs instead of having to create a dummy user
Reports have difficulty downloading if pop ups disabled or in some browser environments
When competencies are updated while a cycle is open, any changes don't effect that open cycle but only future ones. Would be nice to be able to have the option to apply changes to existing "open" cycles

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Verified User

C-Level Executive in Finance and Accounting

Marketing and Advertising Company, 11-50 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

15Five 9.5

Based on 2 answers

15Five offers a full feature solution that provides managers the flexibility to use the system that best fits the needs of their department.

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Jason Watts, CF.APMP

Sr Contracts & Operations Analyst

AgileAssets Inc.Computer Software, 51-200 employees

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PiiQ by Cornerstone 3.0

Based on 2 answers

It's not that CSB isn't a decent performance management system, but we have decided to go with just one vendor (Workday) for an HRIS/performance management/payroll system so we can directly relate pay to performance. We are more interested in having just one system that "talks" to the other pieces instead of having to work with several vendors. It reduces the hassle of having to communicate with different support teams, having different contracts, and so on.

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Employee in Human Resources

Marketing and Advertising Company, 201-500 employees

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Usability

15Five 9.5

Based on 2 answers

It's very simple to use - not overly complicated. You wouldn't need training to use. There are some features I never use because I don't understand -- like one on ones. However we use without and still find a lot of value in it!

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Employee in Finance and Accounting

Non-profit Organization Management Company, 1-10 employees

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PiiQ by Cornerstone 7.8

Based on 37 answers

There are specific things within the goals and competencies that are user-friendly. For example, the rating slider isn't great in my opinion. You can slide in between ratings which can create some odd scoring (if you use scoring). It seems a better solution would be a drop down where you select your rating.There are also some glitches in the system and have been told Cornerstone is aware of them but are focused on delivering new features. There are workarounds, but that doesn't seem to be a great answer.

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Verified User

Employee in Human Resources

Construction Company, 201-500 employees

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Reliability and Availability

No score

No answers yet

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PiiQ by Cornerstone 10.0

Based on 1 answer

So far 100%.

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Verified User

Vice-President in Human Resources

Telecommunications Company, 501-1000 employees

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Performance

No score

No answers yet

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PiiQ by Cornerstone 7.0

Based on 1 answer

The saving process slows it down. It doesn’t auto save. If you leave a page, it will sometimes warn you, but not always. When you hit the save button, a window pops up that says creating/saving packets. It feels very archaic.

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Verified User

Vice-President in Human Resources

Telecommunications Company, 501-1000 employees

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Support Rating

15Five 8.4

Based on 24 answers

The 15Five support team is amazing. They were always willing to speak with me when I did something wrong in the system and never had a harsh or placing judgment tone in their voices. They respond quickly and promptly and allowed me to learn something new each time I cross lines with them. I am thankful for their knowledge and customer service they shared with me when I needed it.

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Education Manager

CIG/ELVNon-profit Organization Management, 51-200 employees

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PiiQ by Cornerstone 8.2

Based on 36 answers

My assistant could better address this issue. My perception is that there is not immediate assistance, and that there can be a wait for help. That is not a negative, just a perception. I have not used support in two years.

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Director, Human Resources

Viewpointe Archive Services L.L.C.Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

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Online Training

15Five 10.0

Based on 1 answer

Very helpful webinar training. They answer questions, the slides are all very helpful, and they send you the presentation once the webinar is complete so that you can share with your team.

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Verified User

Employee in Finance and Accounting

Non-profit Organization Management Company, 1-10 employees

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PiiQ by Cornerstone 9.0

Based on 1 answer

We bought training provided by 3rd party – it was fabulous.

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Vice-President in Human Resources

Telecommunications Company, 501-1000 employees

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Implementation Rating

15Five 10.0

Based on 1 answer

It was very easy and support was super helpful!

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Employee in Finance and Accounting

Non-profit Organization Management Company, 1-10 employees

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PiiQ by Cornerstone 9.0

Based on 2 answers

I think we could have done a better job of rolling out the tool to our managers. We were under a tight timeline. In the training, we showed them everything and said go do it by this date. Looking back, I would have done it in pieces: for example, 2 weeks to write goals, 2 weeks to get sign-off from direct reports. I just let them go at it. Since then we’ve moved to agile development environment and are applying the technique to everything. In future would only do through change sprint. It is a big change I didn’t take it seriously enough.

I had a team of 3 project managing. You need a champion from every department to make sure you’re getting it right and to make sure what’s happening is communicated. It’s not something you can do without input from department heads

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Verified User

Vice-President in Human Resources

Telecommunications Company, 501-1000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

I've used Asana and Jira. Jira has too much functionality for a team like ours and Asana didn't have enough gamification for our team. At the end we chose 15Five because it was simple to use and easy to follow, it also allowed the manager to review each individual on the team quickly and effectively.

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Professional in Research & Development

Internet Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Lesson.ly has been great to work with but it is a very clear and simple, user-friendly system that anyone can pick up with very little training as it is self-explanatory. It also has a great mobile interface and lots of different features that are easy to add for the admin but really impactful for the user.

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Administrator in Other

Food & Beverages Company, 51-200 employees

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Return on Investment

For me, the ROI is immeasurable. I don't know how I could manage my team without it.
For the second year running, my team has been rated as "most engaged" by our annual HR survey. For a company with well over 1,000 people globally, I'm proud of this! Without 15Five, I dont know if it would be the same.

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Manager, Field Services Group

OEConnection (OEC)Management Consulting, 1001-5000 employees

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It's tool and it's only as good as the person wielding it. The investment in PiiQ was accompanied by a quarterly cadence and manager feedback training. We feel like our employees are given regular feedback and bonuses are tied to objective accomplishment.

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Verified User

Executive in Manufacturing

Construction Company, 201-500 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

Optional

15Five Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

Optional

$1,000*

* per installation

PiiQ by Cornerstone Editions & Modules

Edition

PiiQ Performance	$8.00¹
PiiQ Learning + Content & Performance	$15.00¹
PiiQ Learning + Content	$8.00¹

per user per month

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Rating Summary

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