What users are saying about
Cornerstone OnDemand
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Top Rated
401 Ratings
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49 Ratings
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Based on 49 reviews and ratings
Feature Set Ratings
Onboarding
7.8
Cornerstone OnDemand
78%
Pluralsight Skills
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
Cornerstone OnDemand ranks higher in 3/3 features
Cornerstone OnDemand ranks higher in 3/3 features
New hire portal
7.5
75%
64 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Manager tracking tools
7.4
74%
105 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Compliance tracking and reporting
8.5
85%
115 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Performance and Goals
8.4
Cornerstone OnDemand
84%
Pluralsight Skills
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
Cornerstone OnDemand ranks higher in 5/5 features
Cornerstone OnDemand ranks higher in 5/5 features
Corporate goal setting
8.0
80%
87 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Subordinate goal setting
8.2
82%
91 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Individual goal setting
8.5
85%
99 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Line-of sight-visibility
8.3
83%
87 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Performance tracking
8.7
87%
104 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Performance Management
8.2
Cornerstone OnDemand
82%
Pluralsight Skills
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
Cornerstone OnDemand ranks higher in 10/10 features
Cornerstone OnDemand ranks higher in 10/10 features
Performance plans
8.0
80%
88 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Plan weighting
8.2
82%
74 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Manager note taking
8.4
84%
63 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Performance improvement plans
8.3
83%
75 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Review status tracking
8.1
81%
89 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Rater nomination workflow
8.1
81%
58 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Review reminders
8.1
81%
87 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Workflow restrictions
8.6
86%
79 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Multiple review frequency
8.7
87%
77 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Reporting
7.8
78%
106 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Succession Planning
7.9
Cornerstone OnDemand
79%
Pluralsight Skills
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
Cornerstone OnDemand ranks higher in 4/4 features
Cornerstone OnDemand ranks higher in 4/4 features
Create succession plans/pools
8.3
83%
46 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Candidate ranking
7.9
79%
46 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Candidate search
7.6
76%
49 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Candidate development
7.7
77%
45 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Recruiting / ATS
6.5
Cornerstone OnDemand
65%
Pluralsight Skills
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
Cornerstone OnDemand ranks higher in 15/15 features
Cornerstone OnDemand ranks higher in 15/15 features
Job Requisition Management
6.0
60%
44 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Company Website Posting
6.4
64%
40 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Publish to Social Media
6.9
69%
37 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Job Search Site Posting
6.3
63%
37 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Customized Application Form
6.1
61%
39 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Resume Management
6.4
64%
42 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Duplicate Candidate Prevention
6.3
63%
39 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Candidate Search
6.0
60%
40 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Applicant Tracking
6.1
61%
40 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Collaboration
6.0
60%
35 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Task Creation and Delegation
6.1
61%
37 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Email Templates
7.2
72%
56 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
User Permissions
7.2
72%
57 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Notifications and Alerts
7.6
76%
52 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Reporting
7.0
70%
60 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Learning Management
8.0
Cornerstone OnDemand
80%
Pluralsight Skills
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
Cornerstone OnDemand ranks higher in 11/11 features
Cornerstone OnDemand ranks higher in 11/11 features
Course authoring
7.4
74%
122 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Course catalog or library
8.6
86%
166 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Player/Portal
8.2
82%
153 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Learning content
8.2
82%
133 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Mobile friendly
7.3
73%
125 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Progress tracking & certifications
8.0
80%
150 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Assignments
8.5
85%
162 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Compliance management
8.1
81%
143 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Learning administration
8.5
85%
165 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Learning reporting & analytics
8.4
84%
164 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Social learning
6.8
68%
102 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Attribute Ratings
- Cornerstone OnDemand is rated higher in 2 areas: Likelihood to Recommend, Support Rating
- Pluralsight Skills is rated higher in 2 areas: Likelihood to Renew, Usability
Likelihood to Recommend
8.3
Cornerstone OnDemand
83%
242 Ratings
8.0
Pluralsight Skills
80%
17 Ratings
Likelihood to Renew
9.7
Cornerstone OnDemand
97%
35 Ratings
10.0
Pluralsight Skills
100%
1 Rating
Usability
8.6
Cornerstone OnDemand
86%
35 Ratings
9.0
Pluralsight Skills
90%
1 Rating
Availability
7.3
Cornerstone OnDemand
73%
5 Ratings
Pluralsight Skills
N/A
0 Ratings
Performance
6.4
Cornerstone OnDemand
64%
5 Ratings
Pluralsight Skills
N/A
0 Ratings
Support Rating
6.6
Cornerstone OnDemand
66%
49 Ratings
6.0
Pluralsight Skills
60%
1 Rating
In-Person Training
8.6
Cornerstone OnDemand
86%
4 Ratings
Pluralsight Skills
N/A
0 Ratings
Online Training
9.0
Cornerstone OnDemand
90%
8 Ratings
Pluralsight Skills
N/A
0 Ratings
Implementation Rating
9.0
Cornerstone OnDemand
90%
18 Ratings
Pluralsight Skills
N/A
0 Ratings
Product Scalability
8.2
Cornerstone OnDemand
82%
2 Ratings
Pluralsight Skills
N/A
0 Ratings
Likelihood to Recommend
Cornerstone OnDemand
This is a great tool for middle to a large company that wants to have virtual learning access, manager rosters, and robust reporting on multiple data points. You want to make sure you have someone fully committed in time and energy to launching and managing [Cornerstone OnDemand]. It does lift a lot of the communication burden when automating email communication and helps to track required training far better than any excel sheet.

Verified User
Contributor in Human Resources
Hospitality Company, 1001-5000 employeesPluralsight Skills
Awesome tool for teams looking to gain new skills or refine and update existing skills. I love the convenience of using this tool for recertification credits (i.e. PMP). Instead of identifying which classes I need to take, I can identify my interests and have recommendations presented for what paths I should take. It is a really helpful tool to create ladders for my team to transition from one role into the next. I think this is going to be a really beneficial tool.

Verified User
Project Manager in Information Technology
Government Administration Company, 1001-5000 employeesPros
Cornerstone OnDemand
- Automatic recurring assignments are easy to get that refresher training out without needing to assign it fresh each time.
- Reporting 2.0 makes it easy to write and share your reports with just selected filters. Making it easy for people receiving it to just change what they need to see.
- Learning Admin Console makes it easy to peek at what is going on in your portal and open up connected reporting when needed.
- Success Center is a great resource for getting peer answers to questions and learning about the releases and suggesting changes that should be added to the roadmap.
LMS System Administrator
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research CenterResearch, 1001-5000 employees
Pluralsight Skills
- Pluralsight has hundreds of authors that are constantly producing new content, which is valuable for the tech industry that is constantly moving at a brisk pace.
- Many content authors are respected leaders in the topic they're presenting. You are able to trust that their content is thorough and authentic.
- Niche expert-level topics are presented in a curated video format which is difficult to find anywhere else.
Senior ASP.NET Web Application Engineer
Bross GroupComputer Software, 11-50 employees
Cons
Cornerstone OnDemand
- User-submitted external training is editable by users even after it has been approved and completed on their transcript, UNLESS a transcript lock is put into place--which also renders all submitted certificates un-openable once approved. Thus they can never be referenced after approval.
- The system is designed for annual compliance training to be re-versioned annually. I [believe it] is a very un-user friendly for training that we don't want to re-version because users take it on a rolling, as-needed basis.
- Some very key components are not configurable and cause our users a great deal of confusion. For example, there is no way to turn off the search bar on a user transcript or even to edit the prompt text within it. Our users are constantly searching for training here, and end up re-opening/re-launching completed courses rather than registering for a new occurrence of a course.
- In general, we find Cornerstone [onDemand] clunky and that it does not really meet our needs.

Verified User
General Manager in Other
Government Administration Company, 10,001+ employeesPluralsight Skills
- Companies don't change technologies in their products often. For example a product that was built on AngularJS is still viable and the company may have no plans to upgrade it. Pluralsight could do a better job of providing new courses on technology that's still useful, though somewhat dated; like AngularJS for example.
- Pluralsight has a bad habit of throwing all their courses in a large bucket. For example, when I log-in and look to see what new I often have to wade through courses on tools that a web artist or designer would use. I wish Pluralsight would categorize course and let us (their customers) flag what types of videos we wanted to see, or better yet exclude from our view.
- Years ago, Pluralsight would let its customer download the courseware and that was great. I was disappointed when they stopped this feature.
- I'd love to see more course where the goal is to build a particular type of software. For example, lets have one where you build a blog using ASP.NET and deploy it to Azure. Let have one where you build a survey application, etc. Learning technologies is great, but I'd love to see courses where the goal is to build a particular type of application.
Senior Developer Analyst
Joint Commission ResourcesHospital & Health Care, 201-500 employees
Pricing Details
Cornerstone OnDemand
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
Required
Starting Price
—Cornerstone OnDemand Editions & Modules
—
Additional Pricing Details
—Pluralsight Skills
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
$29 per month
Pluralsight Skills Editions & Modules
Edition
Team - Professional | $579.001 |
---|---|
Team - Enterprise | $779.001 |
Individual - Standard | $29.002 |
Individual - Premium | $45.002 |
- per user, per year
- per month
Additional Pricing Details
—Likelihood to Renew
Cornerstone OnDemand
Cornerstone OnDemand 9.7
Based on 35 answers
As long as pricing stays reasonable, we will likely stay with Cornerstone for at least one more contract renewal. It would be a large task to migrate all of our content to a new system. However, the LMS landscape is diversifying with new startups that are showing some real innovation.
Learning Management System Administrator, Training Specialist
Tennant CompanyMachinery, 1001-5000 employees
Pluralsight Skills
Pluralsight Skills 10.0
Based on 1 answer
Great product and service so far. Awesome new content almost every week.
Senior Front-end developer
Velocity PartnersInformation Technology and Services, 201-500 employees
Usability
Cornerstone OnDemand
Cornerstone OnDemand 8.6
Based on 35 answers
Easy to use, easy to learn, lots of support during the learning process. There are a few parts of the system we don't use and I'm hesitant to begin using because other clients have said they're difficult and cumbersome (certifications) or outdated (libraries)

Verified User
Manager in Human Resources
Utilities Company, 501-1000 employeesPluralsight Skills
Pluralsight Skills 9.0
Based on 1 answer
Very, VERY easy to use.
Senior Front-end developer
Velocity PartnersInformation Technology and Services, 201-500 employees
Reliability and Availability
Cornerstone OnDemand
Cornerstone OnDemand 7.3
Based on 5 answers
It was down for a couple of hours in our first month. Occasionally, in the evening we have trouble logging in even though it is not a maintenance window.

Verified User
Project Manager in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 501-1000 employeesPluralsight Skills
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Performance
Cornerstone OnDemand
Cornerstone OnDemand 6.4
Based on 5 answers
Pages do not load quickly. Often times any action or selection of a box, drop down, check, pretty much ANY Javascript interaction causes the whole entire page to load/reload/start doing something in the background. This makes a nightmare for having to mass edit courses or upload ILT sessions. It's the one of the archaic web designs they use that really bugs me as an admin and makes working in the portal at times intolerable and insufferable
LMS Administrator
H&E Equipment Services, Inc.Machinery, 1001-5000 employees
Pluralsight Skills
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Cornerstone OnDemand
Cornerstone OnDemand 6.6
Based on 49 answers
Its always important to have support when you are facing problems and when you are the main admin of the organization. Cornerstone Support is very supporting when you have not found the answer in the help guide. its very useful to have a team support to guide you.
Coordinateur pédagogique
Air Tahiti NuiAirlines/Aviation, 501-1000 employees
Pluralsight Skills
Pluralsight Skills 6.0
Based on 1 answer
Each feedback I do for them, I get no response. Minimal communication and followups!
Development Lead
SajilniEntertainment, 1-10 employees
In-Person Training
Cornerstone OnDemand
Cornerstone OnDemand 8.6
Based on 4 answers
we use also to admin all our training in person events and sessions. Its easy to admin this kind of trainings and automatize some processes we have. Also de user experience and the integration with other systems helps to the employees to use more. All modules integrated oriented to develop people is the principal reason to have CSOD. The training administration is very complete and allows to automate many processes.
Tecnico de Formación y Sistemas de RRHH
UCI - Unión de Créditos InmobiliariosFinancial Services, 501-1000 employees
Pluralsight Skills
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Online Training
Cornerstone OnDemand
Cornerstone OnDemand 9.0
Based on 8 answers
The online modules are pretty good. You can access them at any time, which we have done. You learn a lot in the beginning, but having the ability to retake short lessons when you are working on those items was very helpful.

Verified User
Manager in Professional Services
Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employeesPluralsight Skills
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
Cornerstone OnDemand
Cornerstone OnDemand 9.0
Based on 18 answers
Dig deep on what your current processes are and how they match up to Cornerstone OnDemand functionality. It's not that the Cornerstone OnDemand is bad, it just the amount of work it requires you to do to get your current data to fit into their system.

Verified User
Manager in Professional Services
Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employeesPluralsight Skills
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Cornerstone OnDemand
The Sales Pitch for Cornerstone while being great, left us a bit disappointed when the tool got implemented. Although it is a game-changer and radically improved the learning experience the after-sales service has left us a bit disappointed. Since the overall package makes up for the situation, we can safely recommend it but while exercising caution.

Verified User
Professional in Corporate
Logistics & Supply Chain Company, 10,001+ employeesPluralsight Skills
Before using Pluralsight, staff was using YouTube to help them with developing certain aspects of their knowledge. However, YouTube is much less structured/organized than Pluralsight. Pluralsight has a very wide offering of courses and it has lot of good content. One quick search and we can get started.

Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology
Pharmaceuticals Company, 501-1000 employeesScalability
Cornerstone OnDemand
Cornerstone OnDemand 8.2
Based on 2 answers
I have had no problem scaling the platform across various areas of the business
Learning Technologist
Organic ValleyFood & Beverages, 501-1000 employees
Pluralsight Skills
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
Cornerstone OnDemand
- We strive to educate our customers and Cornerstone [onDemand] is key to this process. Cornerstone [onDemand] has the ability to deliver content to thousands of users in a reliable environment
- We need the flexibility to load SCORM courses and videos and Cornerstone [onDemand] nails both of these needs!
- We have over 100,000 users on our Cornerstone [onDemand] platform! They all have access to our own created material in a reliable and consistent environment!
Business Analyst
Jack Henry & AssociatesFinancial Services, 5001-10,000 employees
Pluralsight Skills
- One positive impact is it has kept our employees engaged in the material they work with every day. Instead of becoming stagnant and complacent, they are actively searching out ways to develop skills and do more with the tools available to them.
- It saves money when it comes to offering training and development opportunities company-wide. It would be much more costly to invest in specialized training for that number of employees.
- One potential negative is the amount of company time spent on coursework over work responsibilities. A balance must be struck and individuals should be encouraged to explore the training on their own time.

Verified User
Team Lead in Other
Computer Software Company, 11-50 employees