# Technical hiring assessments: what AI models recommend, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Asked as "coding assessment platform" and as "technical interview tool", six framings each, to fourteen models with search on, on behalf of a mid-market B2B company. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/talent/technical-hiring-assessments

**Standing:** HackerRank leads with 23% of first choices; verdict contested. 48 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts.

## First-choice share

| Rank | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [HackerRank](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/hackerrank/index.md) | 23% | 27% | 70 |
| 2 | [Codility](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/codility/index.md) | 21% | 21% | 58 |
| 3 | [Coderbyte](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/coderbyte/index.md) | 15% | 5% | 40 |
| 4 | [CodeSignal](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/codesignal/index.md) | 8% | 19% | 57 |
| 5 | [CoderPad](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/coderpad/index.md) | 6% | 12% | 32 |
| 6 | [TestDome](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/testdome/index.md) | 4% | 12% | 16 |
| 9 | [TestGorilla](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/testgorilla/index.md) | 2% | 11% | 36 |
| 16 | [HackerEarth Assessments](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/hackerearth-assessments/index.md) | 0% | 12% | 17 |

Rank is by share of first choices among all 75 products named; products with the same share are tied, and the order among them carries no meaning. The table lists those with at least 10 labels.

## Each model's first choice on the direct prompt

- Claude Haiku 4.5: CodeSubmit, TestGorilla; alternatives CodeSignal, Codility, Qualified
- GPT-5.4 mini: Codility; alternatives CodeSignal, HackerRank
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: Coderbyte; alternatives CodeSignal, CoderPad, DevSkiller, TestGorilla
- Perplexity Sonar: HackerRank; alternatives CodeSignal, Coderbyte, Codility, TestGorilla
- Grok 4.20: HackerRank; alternatives CodeSignal, Codility
- Mistral Small: CodeSignal; alternatives Coderbyte, Codility, HackerRank, TestGorilla
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: Codility; alternatives CodeSignal, Coderbyte, HackerRank, TestGorilla
- Llama 4 Maverick: Codility; alternatives CodeSignal, Coderbyte, HackerRank
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: CodeSignal; alternatives Coderbyte, Codility
- Kimi K2: Codility, HackerRank; alternatives CodeSignal
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: Codility; alternatives Canditech, CodeSignal, Coderbyte, HackerRank
- MiniMax M2.5: Codility; alternatives CodeSignal, Coderbyte, HackerRank
- GPT-6 Luna: HackerRank; alternatives CodeSignal, CoderPad
- Muse Glimmer 30B: Codility; alternatives Canditech, HackerRank, TestGorilla

## Sources the answers cite

73 of 84 answers came back with a source list, from 14 of 14 models. Sites named in the most answers:

- codility.com: 47 answers, 124 citations
- coderbyte.com: 35 answers, 59 citations
- hackerrank.com: 24 answers, 41 citations
- g2.com: 20 answers, 38 citations
- selectsoftwarereviews.com: 17 answers, 17 citations
- coderpad.io: 15 answers, 18 citations
- selecthub.com: 13 answers, 15 citations
- sourceforge.net: 12 answers, 15 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://coderbyte.com/blog/reviewing-all-43-of-the-technical-assessment-platforms (30 answers)
- https://codility.com/compare/best-technical-assessment-platforms (30 answers)
- https://codility.com/how-to-choose-technical-assessment-platform (29 answers)
- https://codility.com/ (18 answers)
- https://selectsoftwarereviews.com/buyer-guide/online-coding-interview-tools (17 answers)
- https://codility.com/compare (16 answers)
- https://selecthub.com/c/technical-assessment-tools (11 answers)
- https://adaface.com/coding-assessment-tools (9 answers)
- https://codility.com/compare/best-coding-interview-platforms-ai (9 answers)
- https://goodfit.so/guides/best-coding-assessment-platforms (9 answers)

## Warned against

- HackerRank: 19 of 70 labels negative. "Why Avoid the Giants? (HackerRank & Codility) ... often poor choices for *strictly* limited budgets" (Qwen 3.7 Flash, budget prompt)
- CodeSignal: 11 of 57 labels negative. "Users have reported numerous bugs, system refreshes that lost their code, and random language switches during assessments" (Claude Haiku 4.5, negative prompt)
- Codility: 12 of 58 labels negative. "Why Avoid the Giants? (HackerRank & Codility) ... often poor choices for *strictly* limited budgets" (Qwen 3.7 Flash, budget prompt)
- CoderPad: 4 of 32 labels negative. "CoderPad assessments with proctoring enabled: CoderPad advertises webcam monitoring, AI analysis of video, and recording candidate activity." (GPT-6 Luna, negative prompt)

## Movement since October 2026

Floor: 13 points of share, measured on the calibration repeat.
Same leader: HackerRank at 23%.

- Codility: 9% to 21%, +12. Inside the floor by 1 point · rank 6 → 2 of 75.
- HackerEarth Assessments: 9% to 0%, −9. Inside the floor by 4 points · rank 7 → 16 of 75.
- CodeSignal: 16% to 8%, −8. Inside the floor by 5 points · rank 2 → 4 of 75.
- TestGorilla: 10% to 2%, −8. Inside the floor by 5 points · rank 5 → 9 of 75.
- HackerRank: 17% to 23%, +6. Inside the floor by 7 points · rank 1 of 75, unchanged.
- Coderbyte: 10% to 15%, +5. Inside the floor by 8 points · rank 4 → 3 of 75.
- CoderPad: 10% to 6%, −4. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 3 → 5 of 75.
- TestDome: 7% to 4%, −3. Inside the floor by 10 points · rank 8 → 6 of 75.
- DevSkiller: 2% to 0%, −2. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 10 → 18 of 75.
- Karat: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 13 points · rank 15 → 17 of 75.

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/hr.