Equip is built for recruiters to conduct pre-hiring assessments. Equip’s assessments test multiple skills at different competencies. Using its vast Question Libraries, or creating Custom Tests enables teams to hire developers, sales, marketing and customer support executives, data analysts and more. It ensures that recruiters spend the least time interviewing only the top prospects.
HackerEarth is a technical skill screening platform that enables recruiters to hire developers for engineering roles using coding skill assessments. They also host hackathons for developers to challenge their skills and learn in the process. HackerEarth does not offer skill tests for non-technical roles.
Assess multiple roles
Engineering, Data Science, Sales & Support
Ready-to-use Questions
Choose content from existing Question Banks
Multiple skills in one test
Include questions from diverse skills in a single quiz
Import Existing Content
Upload Excel file of questions in a specified format
Multiple test types
Quizzes, Coding, Spreadsheet Test, CSS Test, Video Interview
Advanced Proctoring
Face & Noise detection, Tab-switch, Multiple Monitors, Disabling Copy-paste, Trust Score
Randomized Template
Multiple variants of the same question template with random variables
Plagiarism Check
Automatically detect submissions that overlap with other submissions
Session Recordings
View a recording of candidate's screen as they took the test
Pay-As-You-Go Pricing
Know what you pay for, with no annual lock-in period
ATS integrations
Share assessments and receive updates from within your ATS tool
Open book style tests
Ask questions based on uploaded documents
Voice Input questions
Candidates can record their voice to answer questions
Equip offers a lot of flexibility in creating Custom Tests. Custom Tests can include all test types available on the platform: Quizzes, Programming Challenges, CSS Challenges, SQL Challenges and Video Interviews.
Custom Tests on HackerEarth are only available for technical roles with limited question types.
On Equip, a Custom Test is a group of several questions as a single unit. The entire custom test can be reused in any assessment with a single click. The entire custom test can be easily cloned too. Both platforms allow importing your own questions in bulk using an Excel file. See how a Custom Test on Equipcan be created in under 2 minutes.
On HackerEarth, questions from a custom test are individually added to the library. These questions can be reused later but each question has to be added individually to the new test which might be cumbersome for a custom test with a large number of questions.
Apart from the common question types such as coding questions, MCQ and others, Equip has voice input and transcription questions too. These are particularly useful for assessing communication skills. Know more about 10+ question types within Quizzes on Equipand each test type.
HackerEarth’s Custom Tests have question types such as coding challenges, MCQ, Subjective Answers, and Programming Questions File Upload — Candidates upload a file as a response.
Equip’s tests offer the flexibility to show questions one-by-one or all at once. You can add a timer per question when questions are displayed one by one. Alternatively, the questions can be shown all at once and an overall timer can be set for the test. The negative points for every question are autocalculated when enabled.
HackerEarth’s tests also have the option to add timer and negative points for questions. However, the questions, with and without a timer, are not segregated within the test. The overall time for the test is displayed at the top of the screen and the timer for a specific question is displayed right beneath it. A candidate has the ability to switch between questions, however, if the candidate has viewed a timed question the timer keeps running for it even while viewing another question. Attempting the question is disabled once the timer assigned to it runs out. This can be a bit inconvenient and confusing for the candidates attempting the test.
The proctoring summary has a Trust Score which is calculated based on the number of violations committed during the test. This helps users to skim through proctoring summary at a glance without going through the entire report unless needed.
These are the proctoring settings on HackerEarth
HackerEarth offers basic proctoring features. However, the proctoring features do not detect if a candidate uses an external display for cheating during the test. Since face detection is not available, there is room for impersonation for candidates. The platform does not offer a proctoring report to verify discrepancies for individual test takers. The recommended limit for number of allowed tab switches is 5 which easily leaves room for Googling the answers and candidates can clear the cut-off.
Equip is built by the same team that built AutoProctor and has conducted 15 million+ proctored tests across the world. All assessments are AI-proctored using AutoProctor. For all tests created with questions from Equip’s Question Bank, the following proctoring settings are enabled by default
Additional proctoring features are detecting face and audio, enforcing desktop and a webcam preview for the candidate during the test.
Questions in online tests can be made publicly available on the internet which increases the chances of candidates cheating on a test. With the Randomized Template feature, you can upload a question template and different users will see different variants of the question. When a group of candidates attempt the same assessment, they may cheat by sharing the question with each other. Additionally, candidates can easily Google the question to directly find the solution or the approach to solving a problem. The Randomized Template feature exactly solves this problem. See Randomized Template in action here by clicking I’m Feeling Lucky.
Hide publicly available questions is a filter in the HackerEarth Library. It helps you avoid using questions in your test which are accessible through Google Search.
Equip has 20+ Skills that can be used to assess Technical Roles such as Backend Developer, Data Analyst, Frontend Developer, Full-Stack Engineer, and Software Engineer as well as Non-Technical Roles such as Customer Support Executive, Business Development Associate, Digital Marketer and more. The Skill Library can be customised on request to create an assessment for measuring objective skills for every role. An Equip assessment is a set of tests that a candidate must take one after another. Check out the available skills here.
HackerEarth has a comprehensive skills library to assess over 80 technical roles such as Frontend Developer, Backend Developer, Data Engineer and more.
Equip has a 14 -day free trial. It has Lite, Standard and Premium pricing plans. The Lite plan has 25 credits at ₹1800/month, the Standard Plan has 50 credits at ₹3600/month, and the Premium Plan has 100 credits at ₹7200 per month. One credit equals one candidate attempting an assessment. Every plan is easily scalable to the number of candidates a user needs to assess and the pricing tiers depend mainly on usage. Users with an active subscription can top-up additional credits as per their requirements. One credit costs ₹82. Effectively, you pay $1 to assess every candidate. As long as your subscription is active, credits are brought forward to your next billing cycle. All test types and Question Banks are available across all plans. ATS integration is available only for the Premium Plan. Read other Pricing FAQs for Equip.
HackerEarth has three pricing plans starting at $169 per month. Features such as FaceCode interviews, Learning & Development and Hackathons are available at additional cost. The Starter plan severely lacks crucial features such as proctoring, ATS integration and customer support. The cost per candidate is $8.45 for the Starter plan and $7.38 for the Enterprise Plan which is 8 times the cost per assessment on Equip.
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