Every category where a model named Criteria Corp for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Candidate assessment	Talent acquisition	10%	2 of 101	3%	33	accepted challenger
Skills intelligence	Performance and talent management	0%	44 of 162	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by TalentGuard at 19%
Technical hiring assessments	Talent acquisition	0%	39 of 52	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by HackerRank at 28%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Criteria Corp yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Criteria Corp across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	2	0	0	2
GPT-5.4 mini	0	1	1	0	2
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	2	2	0	4
Perplexity Sonar	2	0	1	0	3
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	2	2	0	4
Mistral Small	0	1	2	0	3
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	3	1	0	4
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	1	0	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	3	0	0	3
Kimi K2	1	3	0	1	5
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	1	1	0	3
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	1	0	1

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct22 labels5

Paraphrase15 labels1

Comparative29 labelsNone

Budget-constrained15 labels3

Scale-constrained11 labelsNone

Negative9 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative101 labels in all, every segment counted; 9 of the 10 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“I'd recommend Criteria Corp if you want the best balance of validated assessments, structured hiring, and mid-market fit” Perplexity Sonar · Candidate assessment · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“My top recommendation: Start with Criteria Corp if you want a scientifically rigorous, legally defensible solution” Kimi K2 · Candidate assessment · direct prompt · first choice

“Criteria Corp is widely considered the best overall platform” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Candidate assessment · direct prompt · first choice

“the strongest all-around choice is usually Criteria Corp” Perplexity Sonar · Candidate assessment · direct prompt · first choice

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Avoid: Criteria Corp appears to require custom quotes with contracts reportedly starting around $5,000-$13,000+ annually” Kimi K2 · Candidate assessment · budget prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Criteria Corp, over the 101 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Criteria Corp was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

TestGorilla77 of 10134Compare →

HackerRank48 of 1012Not in the top three

Codility42 of 1013Not in the top three

Vervoe37 of 1012Compare →

Harver31 of 1010Not in the top three

iMocha29 of 1013Not in the top three

The Predictive Index26 of 1014Not in the top three

SHL25 of 1016Not in the top three

Mercer | Mettl24 of 1011Not in the top three

HireVue23 of 1011Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Criteria Corp. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 85 of the 101 answers that named Criteria Corp and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

testlify.com46

testgorilla.com39

jobcannon.io34

bryq.com32

testtrick.com27

firsthr.app24

bestrecruitingtools.com23

peoplemanagingpeople.com23

g2.com22

getapp.com22

292 of the 292 domain citations in answers naming Criteria Corp came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

jobcannon.io/compare/best-pre-employment-assessments34

bryq.com/blog/best-talent-assessment-platforms-202626

bestrecruitingtools.com/blog/best-pre-employment-assessment-software-enterprise-202623

pin.com/blog/pre-employment-assessment-tools22

testlify.com/top-10-pre-hire-assessment-platforms-for-enterprises21

aihr.com/blog/top-pre-employment-assessment-tools20

peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/best-pre-employment-testing-software20

testtrick.com/blogs/hiring-assessment-tools-small-mid-sized-teams17

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Criteria Corp

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Criteria Corp; a claim can dispute any of them.

Criteria 3Criteria (Criteria Corp) 1Criteria Corp (Criterion Partnership) 1Criteria Corp (HireSelect) 1Criteria Corp / Predictive Index 1

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It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at criteriacorp.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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