Codility review

Codility is an AI-powered platform for assessing skills in job candidates and existing employees. It is aimed at technical hiring teams, but its assessments also cover business roles. Candidates work through job-related tasks: coding exercises in a real coding environment for engineering roles, and role-based tasks with an AI assistant and relevant data for business roles. In technical interviews, teams can review how engineers build with AI and check its work.

For current employees, Codility’s Skills Intelligence offering is designed to help teams identify skills, AI use, and development needs. Assessment reports can include identity checks, behavior signals, similarity checks, code replay, and AI activity. Those are review signals, not a substitute for a hiring team’s judgment. Codility also supports ATS integrations, so teams can send assessments and receive results through supported systems. The practical question is whether that combination of assessments and reporting fits your hiring process—and whether the invite limits and price fit your hiring volume.

Codility’s main strength is breadth within skills assessment. Engineering teams can use coding tasks and technical interviews, while business teams can assess role-related work with an AI assistant and relevant data. That gives companies a way to assess more than coding without buying a separate tool for every role. Skills Intelligence extends the product to existing employees, with a focus on mapping skills, AI use, and development needs.

The reporting features may also help reviewers understand how a candidate reached an answer, rather than relying only on a final score. Codility says reports can include code replay, AI activity, similarity checks, behavior signals, and identity checks. These signals could be useful when a team wants more context, though the published materials don’t establish how accurate they are or how teams should weigh them.

ATS connections are another practical advantage: supported systems can send assessments and receive results. The Online plan includes one standard ATS integration, while Enterprise lists all ATS integrations, including Workday and SAP. For a team whose hiring process already runs through a supported ATS, that can reduce handoffs. The value is strongest when assessments match the work candidates will actually do; the product’s range alone doesn’t guarantee a fair or useful evaluation.

The entry price is steep for teams that only need occasional assessments. Codility lists Online plans at $800 per plan per month when billed monthly, or $4,800 per year ($400 per month equivalent) when billed annually. There is no free plan, and a free trial is not listed. The plan is for technical hiring teams assessing up to 1,400 people yearly; it includes 25–100 monthly invites or annual packs covering 200–1,400 invites. It also includes five platform users, rising to 10 with 1,400 annual invites. Unlimited collaborators are included, but that does not remove the platform-user cap.

Online invite overages move to the next pack, but Codility does not publish the overage price. Extended AI Usage is available, with pricing not published. Enterprise pricing is custom; it lists a custom fair-usage limit, unlimited platform users and collaborators, and advanced integrations and support. That makes total cost harder to compare before a sales conversation.

Candidate feedback is mixed in the Reddit threads we read. One r/webdev poster described failing a timed Codility test despite preparing, while commenters argued that timed tests can measure test-taking under pressure more than day-to-day development. Other threads include complaints about time limits and the coding environment. These are individual reports, not proof that every assessment has the same problem, but teams should check that their tasks reflect the job.

Codility has no free plan listed, and trial availability is not published. The Online plan starts at $400 per month when billed annually: that is $4,800 per year. Monthly billing is $800, or twice the annual-billing equivalent. Check the billing commitment before comparing it with monthly-priced alternatives.

Online plans are for teams assessing up to 1,400 people yearly. They include 25–100 invites a month, or annual packs covering 200–1,400 invites, plus five platform users (10 with the largest annual invite pack) and one standard ATS integration. Unlimited collaborators are included. Need more invites? Overages move you to the next pack; the price is not published.

Enterprise pricing is custom and annual, aimed at larger teams needing advanced integrations or support. It includes a custom fair-use limit, unlimited platform users, and all ATS integrations, including Workday and SAP. The price jump from Online is not published, so get a quote before budgeting. Extended AI Usage is an add-on, but its price is also not published.

The first switching check is ATS coverage. Online includes one standard ATS integration; Enterprise includes all ATS integrations, including Workday and SAP. Confirm that your required connector fits the plan before moving assessment workflows. Codility’s published pricing details do not publish migration services, import support for old results, export formats, data-retention terms, or cancellation terms. Ask Codility for those in writing, and confirm you can retain reports and integrity signals you need before ending another service.

For a move, inventory your current assessments, ATS handoffs, users, and reporting needs, then check which Codility tasks and reports cover them. For a move away, ask for a sample export and verify whether task results, code replay, and AI activity data are included; export details are not published here.

Our verdict flags candidate complaints, but provides no Reddit thread, complaint details, or evidence that those complaints drove customers to leave. We can’t responsibly attribute a switching reason to Reddit from the available material.