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Codility
Codility is headquartered in London and has offices in Poland, Germany and the United States.
What it is
Codility is a paid engineering hiring and workforce skills platform available through web, macOS, Windows, and an API. Its Screen product delivers online technical assessments with objective scores and detailed breakdowns across more than 1,300 tasks. Interview provides live technical interviews in a VS Code environment, including whiteboarding, pair programming, live code execution, recordings, and structured evaluation. Skills Intelligence maps engineering capabilities, highlights skill gaps, and supports staffing and development planning. Teams can configure AI use for each assessment, with tasks involving prompt engineering, evaluating AI-generated code, and working with AI tools. Codility connects with recruiting and HR systems such as Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workday, SAP, and SmartRecruiters. The public API handles invitations, result retrieval, completion alerts, and custom reporting, with a limit of 500 requests per user per hour. Codility offers proctoring, custom assessments, benchmarking, and skills assessments. It was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in London.
For and against
For
- More than 1,300 technical assessment tasks
- Live interviews with whiteboarding and pair programming
- Workforce skill-gap and staffing analysis
- Recruiting and HR system integrations
- ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II coverage
Against
- No free plan
- Desktop assessment app excludes Linux
- Trial duration has no fixed term
- Paid plans have unlisted pricing
The verdict
Codility combines technical screening, live interviewing, and workforce skills mapping in one platform. Its Linux limitation and paid, quote-based plans are important considerations for buyers.
Who it suits
Codility suits engineering teams hiring technical roles, running structured interviews, or mapping workforce skills. It is also suited to organizations needing assessment integrations, API access, and configurable AI-use policies.
Plans and prices
Custom
tailored assessment volume · unlimited platform users · full task libraries · VS Code environment
Read 15 Oct 2026 · codility.com
Starter
120 invite credits/year · 1 platform user · limited task library · basic proctoring
Read 15 Oct 2026 · codility.com
Scale
300 invite credits/year (up to 25/month) · 3 platform users · larger task library · custom MCP tasks
Read 15 Oct 2026 · codility.com
On the record
- AI assessment
- AI-specific tasks measure prompt engineering, judging AI output, and debugging AI-generated code.codility.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- API
- Codility provides a public API for recruitment and business-intelligence integrations and documents OAuth2 for connecting user accounts.codility.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- API update
- The Sessions API added optional session status, proctoring signals, invite expiration and inviter fields in a 2026 product update.codility.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Company
- Codility says it was founded in 2009 by Greg Jakacki and is headquartered in London.codility.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- Company legal name
- The service operator is Codility Limited, registered in England and Wales under company number 07048726.codility.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Company size
- LinkedIn lists Codility as privately held, founded in 2009, headquartered in London and employing 51–200 people.linkedin.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Compliance and accessibility
- Codility states it is GDPR and CCPA compliant and WCAG 2.2 AA accessible.codility.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- Data hosting
- Customers choose separate US or EU AWS clusters, with production data and backups kept within the selected cluster.codility.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Data residency
- Customers select EU or US data residency at contract, and Codility says both options are available for enterprise clients.trust.codility.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- Desktop app
- The optional Codility App runs on macOS and Windows; Linux is unsupported.support.codility.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Desktop app limits
- The Codility App is available for macOS and Windows only; Linux is not supported for assessments or interviews that require the app.support.codility.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- Encryption
- Customer data is encrypted with AES-256 at rest and TLS 1.2 or higher in transit.codility.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Funding
- Crunchbase lists Codility as a private Series A company with six investors, including Oxx and HardGamma Ventures.crunchbase.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Codility lists Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workday, SAP and other enterprise ATS/HRIS integrations.codility.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Interview
- Interview provides structured live technical interviews in a shared VS Code workspace.codility.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Licence
- Codility’s terms reserve rights in the service and underlying software and grant access only under an order form, indicating proprietary software.codility.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: GetApp breadth
- A GetApp reviewer said Codility lacked the broader behavioral-assessment suite they needed.getapp.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: Trustpilot IDE
- Trustpilot reviewers report poor code hinting, uncomfortable debugging, freezes, slow test runs and unclear output.trustpilot.com · read 15 Oct 2026
