CodeSignal AI Interviewer

A person decides by contract, and uptime has a number

The contract covers developer roles only, and data stays in the US

CodeSignal Inc. is a Delaware corporation based in San Francisco. It has said it raised $87.5 million in total funding. It gave that figure when it announced a $50 million round in September 2021. No layoff, sale or lawsuit against the company has been reported.

It fits teams hiring beyond engineering, under a few hundred staff

From $79 a month, and your data goes within 30 days of leaving

You can work out roughly what this costs before you talk to anyone, which is rare in this market. Build costs $79 a month, billed once a year, for 60 interviews a year. Or pay $99 a month, billed monthly, for five interviews a month. Build covers interviewers for product, design and engineering roles, plus identity checks. Build and Grow send results to Gem and Ashby. Grow costs $479 a month, billed yearly, for 420 interviews a year. Or pay $599 billed monthly for 35 interviews a month. Grow adds interviewers for sales, customer success and marketing. Pro has no published price. It covers every interviewer CodeSignal sells, deeper fraud checks, and links to Workday, iCIMS and Oracle.

An interview counts only when a candidate starts it. An invitation that goes unopened costs nothing. Assessments, AI interviews and live interviews all draw from the same pool. Once your plan runs out, extra interviews cost $20 each, billed on your next cycle. CodeSignal names no seat count or company size you must clear just to buy.

If you leave, CodeSignal’s contract says it must return or destroy your data within 30 days, at your cost. Before that, it keeps data for as long as your subscription runs. You can request a one-off deletion at any time by emailing its privacy team. A separate clause keeps a year of backups regardless of your subscription status. What it stores is a candidate’s name, email address, IP address, login records and their result. CodeSignal says the fuller application stays in your own tracking system.

What to ask before you sign

1. Our contract names only software developers. Will it cover the sales and marketing roles we plan to use AI Interviewer for? Good answer: Yes, with every role written into the order form.
2. You only host data in the continental United States. How does that meet GDPR for a candidate we interview in the EU? Good answer: A direct answer, not a repeat of the compliance claim on the pricing page.
3. What is a candidate told before the interview? Can they ask for a person instead of the AI agent? Good answer: A clear yes, and how a disability accommodation gets handled in practice.
4. Has anyone outside CodeSignal published a bias audit of AI Interviewer? Good answer: A named auditor and a date, or a plan to get one before we sign.
5. Once our interviews run out, extra ones cost $20 each. Is that per candidate or per completed interview, and is there a cap per billing cycle? Good answer: A clear rate and a cap, in writing.
6. If you miss the 99.95% uptime figure, is money off our next bill the only remedy? Does the 12-month cap still apply if a bad interview leads to a hiring decision we must later defend? Good answer: A straight answer on both, in the contract, not only on the pricing page.
7. Which named systems does AI Interviewer send results to on the plan we are buying? Good answer: One plan name, and a yes or no for our tracking system.
8. If we leave, do you return or destroy our candidates’ data within the 30 days your contract states? Does a copy still exist in your year of backups after that? Good answer: A written deletion date, and a straight answer on the backup copy.

HackerRank Chakra, Glider AI and Talview Ivy are closest, or buy nothing

The closest alternatives to CodeSignal are HackerRank Chakra, Glider AI and Talview Ivy. CodeSignal and these three all grew out of skills testing, not recruiting software. Buying nothing yet is also a choice.

None of the three publishes a price the way CodeSignal does. Glider’s own pricing page leads straight to a demo request. Talview usually wants about 150 to 200 interviews committed before it starts. Compare that with Build and Grow’s published prices before you start a sales conversation with either one.

HackerRank Chakra is the closest match. It shares the same coding-assessment background. It is sold the same way, as a first-round interview plus a written record for a person to act on. Compare the two contracts on uptime and on which roles they cover.

Buy nothing yet if your hiring does not clear a few dozen candidates a role. Turning a job description into a scoring guide takes effort. So does the pilot that calibrates it against your own reviewers. A handful of interviews a month will not pay that effort back. If you hire outside the United States, settle the data-centre and GDPR question first. Do this before you sign an order form and start sending candidates through it.