The code compiled. The hire still failed.
Code tests answer one question. Most engineering mis-hires fail on the others — judgment under pressure, team fit, and whether they stay past the first year. 5Profiler measures the whole person, then hands your panel the interview.
Instruments
6 · one sitting
Answers
3 per candidate
Personality depth
30 facets
Whole-person engineering hires
Keep measuring code — and add what the code test can’t see: how they reason, how they behave in a team, what they value, and what keeps them engaged.
- Beyond the editor — cognitive ability, judgment scenarios, values congruence and work values alongside domain knowledge.
- Campus-scale engineering batteries — stream-wise subject depth for graduate engineering hiring, 1,900+ vetted items.
- Integrity for take-homes — tiered proctoring with a dual-camera side view — AI-assisted plagiarism has changed the game.
- The retention answer — work values matched to the role — because losing an engineer at month eight costs more than the hire.
Side by side, plainly
Positioning compiled from public pages — the full dated matrix with sources lives on the comparison page. Our own in-browser coding environment ships with execution-scored tiers rolling out now.
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5Profiler
one platform, one contract, one candidate record
Vendor positioning compiled from public product and pricing pages; see the dated, sourced matrix on the comparison page. Spotted an error? Tell us — we correct fast.
Questions we always get
Does 5Profiler run coding tests?
An in-browser coding environment with difficulty ladders from fresher to architect is part of the suite; execution-scored tiers are rolling out now. Many teams keep their code tool and add 5Profiler for everything the code test can’t see.
Can it handle campus engineering volume?
Yes — multi-college drives, stream-wise batteries, merit lists and tiered proctoring at season scale.
What does the panel get?
A ranked scorecard, three answers per candidate, and interview probes generated from each profile — then the structured interview itself, on the same record.
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