§ The result
1 point separates Employment Hero and TestGorilla.
Employment Hero (Screening) edges TestGorilla (Assessment) by 1 point under rubric v1.0, 48 to 47. The 7 criteria split 4 to 2 in favour of Employment Hero, with 1 level: Employment Hero is ahead on Post-Market Monitoring and TestGorilla on Bias Audit Transparency. One criterion, Post-Market Monitoring, is both the widest raw gap (Employment Hero 50, TestGorilla 38) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 12% weight it makes up 63% of the weighted advantage Employment Hero holds across the 4 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Employment Hero
SmartMatch is Employment Hero's AI candidate-matching engine. Since March 2026 it has been surfaced through Find Talent and ATS applicant scoring, where it ranks job seekers and applicants against employer criteria and feeds a Recruitment Agent that auto-shortlists candidates and runs AI video and phone screening interviews.
Vendor profile
TestGorilla
TestGorilla is a pre-employment skills-assessment platform offering a large test library plus AI features for resume scoring, candidate sourcing, and one-way/conversational AI video interviews to support skills-based hiring.
§ The record
Employment Hero is filed under Screening AI, TestGorilla under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Video interview.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Employment Hero | TestGorilla |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | AU | NL |
| Founded | 2014 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 44% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Employment Hero 50 · TestGorilla 38
1.4 weighted points to Employment Hero
18% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Employment Hero 35 · TestGorilla 38
0.5 weighted points to TestGorilla
20% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Employment Hero 50 · TestGorilla 52
0.4 weighted points to TestGorilla
8% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Employment Hero 62 · TestGorilla 58
0.3 weighted points to Employment Hero
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Employment Hero 32 · TestGorilla 30
0.3 weighted points to Employment Hero
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Employment Hero 62 · TestGorilla 60
0.2 weighted points to Employment Hero
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +1.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 3.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +1 beside that +1.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Employment Hero minus TestGorilla.
| Category | Weight | Employment Hero | TestGorilla | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 52 | -2 | -0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 38 | -3 | -0.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 30 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 56 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 60 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 38 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 58 | +4 | +0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 47 (F) | +1 | +1.4 |
§ Evidence
Cited sources and documented absences, criterion by criterion.
An absence is a finding, not a blank: the reviewer looked for a named artefact and recorded that it is not located. Where a source sits is a fact about hosting only.
| Criterion | Weight | Employment Hero | TestGorilla | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 31 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 14 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Employment Hero has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; TestGorilla has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for TestGorilla sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 54 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Employment Hero, across 1 distinct source domain, and 19 for TestGorilla, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Employment Hero last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- TestGorilla last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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