Codility vs. Mercer Mettl Coding Assessments

Planning an Exam Scheduling and running the exam Taking the exam Assessing the exam results All done for remote candidates. While working remotely from home during the pandemic many managers found it harder to examine techie talents. Right after when the market started to boil and competition for talent rose, we all tried ways to make it easier for talents, so remote exams become more common and friendly. The ROI, while not always quantified, is in candidate experience, and hiring manager satisfaction as per recruiting talents.

Incentivized

It is well suited for doing a pre screening of candidates on certain assessments. Whenever you post a requirement, you get lot of applications, so the initial screening on the technical skills can be done by giving them a skilled assessment, which will help us to filter candidates better and this also saves the time of the actual interviews as they would get better screened candidates.

• Easy to use
• Good interface (for the ones that take the test)
• Many options of tests to use or build
• Clear and complete test report

Incentivized

• Coding challenges selection based on skill sets
• MCQ selection from the library based on skill sets
• Adding marks for each question
• Ordering the questions in the assessment

• Reports could be more detailed

Incentivized

• Improve more library questions
• Provide ease to add additional questions
• Integration with other tools

This was the best that integrated with our TA system (Greenhouse) and we got positive recommendations. At a time we considered other talent acquisition systems, such as Success Factors, the integration was insufficient. Other than that, the talent acquisition Director was bios, based on previous experience, so as IT, we didn't have much of discovery or selection to make.

Incentivized

• Being able to asses the technical skills of candidates in a hands-on way, with scores
• Easy to manage, does not take much time form recruiters

Incentivized

• It helped us to pre screen candidates based on their skill sets
• Helps to reduce time in talent hiring
• Helps to streamline your talent process
• Reduces wastage of time of the interviewer by giving them proper pre screened candidates