SHL

🎯 Should you use SHL?

Buy if: You run 500+ hires a year and need psychometric assessments defensible in court.

Skip if: You're hiring under 200 people annually or need pricing transparency before a sales call.

⚡ In practice

• ●Setup: 4-6 weeks with dedicated implementation team
• ●Candidate flow: Tests take 45-90 minutes, dropout rate around 30%
• ●Scoring: Auto-generated reports in 48 hours, benchmarked against 200M+ data points

⚠️ Where it breaks

• ●No public pricing means you negotiate blind against a team that closes Fortune 500 deals daily.
• ●Candidates hate the length and the clinical feel, especially for non-executive roles where culture fit matters more than cognitive scores.

💸 Is it worth the money?

Contracts start around $50K annually for mid-market and climb fast with volume. Worth it if you're defending hiring decisions in regulated industries or scaling past 1,000 hires where bias lawsuits are real risk, not if you're a 12-person startup hiring generalists.

🆚 If not this

• ●Criteria -> Same psychometric rigor, public pricing, built for tech hiring instead of enterprise HR
• ●TestGorilla -> $200/month for small teams, less science but actual transparency
• ●Wonderlic -> Cognitive-only alternative at half the cost when you don't need behavioral modules

🎯 Final verdict

Buy for enterprise compliance and volume, skip if you value speed or need to know what you're paying before a three-call sales cycle.