Hatchways

Name: Hatchways
Brand: Hatchways
Rating: 4.6 (152 reviews)

Making engineering hiring look more like real work.

Est 2018|Raised $130K|3 Ref Customers

LinkedIn 10K|Website|Web traffic 2K|FTEs 13|HQ Toronto, Ontario, CA

MarketsInterviewing & Assessment

01Competitive Landscape

Narrative analysis

Hatchways’ repository-based approach can be more representative of engineering work but may increase candidate time requirements and operational overhead.
Published entry pricing for Hatchways is lower than many competitors’ entry tiers, though enterprise features often require sales engagement and can change the price profile.
Adoption signals: accelerator participation and early-stage profiles indicate startup backing; however, independent buyer-side validation is limited based on public review volume.

- Hatchways’ repository-based approach can be more representative of engineering work but may increase candidate time requirements and operational overhead. - Published entry pricing for Hatchways is lower than many competitors’ entry tiers, though enterprise features often require sales engagement and can change the price profile. - Adoption signals: accelerator participation and early-stage profiles indicate startup backing; however, independent buyer-side validation is limited based on public review volume.

When customers choose competitors instead

Common reasons to select alternatives include:

Requirement for formal compliance documentation (SOC 2, ISO 27001, or detailed SSO/SAML/SCIM support) that is publicly documented
A need for large standardized test libraries, proctoring, and plagiarism detection
Preference for shorter assessments to reduce candidate drop-off

	Hatchways	TestGorilla	Codility
Starting Price	Free; Premium from low-hundreds/month	Free; paid from mid-hundreds/month (annual billing)	Annual starter at low-thousands/year
Primary use case	Teams implementing GitHub-based repository assessments and pull-request/code-review workflows	Broad pre-employment testing and top-of-funnel technical screening	Traditional technical screening with a large question library and structured interviews
Key strength	Repository-based assessments that replicate typical engineering workflows	Broad test library and options for non-technical assessments; more explicit compliance signaling in some plans	Established technical assessment provider with a structured screening and interview suite
Key weakness	Limited public documentation on enterprise security/compliance and a smaller public B2B review footprint	More generalized testing approach that may be less representative of daily engineering workflows	Can feel like standardized testing; higher entry price compared to Hatchways