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Should I use JobCannon?

205+ Free Personality & Career Tests - jobcannon.io

· 5 days ago

Reasonable buy for small teams wanting cheap, unproctored personality screening who can tolerate an unproven pre-seed vendor. Skip it if you need validated, clinical-grade assessments, proctoring, or an auditable security posture.

Confidence

Medium. Based on 20+ public sources; most comparison content is JobCannon's own marketing, so independent validation is thin.

Ratings

  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Feature depth
  • Support qualityNo evidence in reviewed sources
  • Security posture

Pricing

$0

Free

ModelNot disclosed
Monthly feesNot disclosed
HardwareNot disclosed
Free tierYes
Premium$0.95 trial
Growth/Teams$199/mo
EnterpriseSales-gated

Best for

  • Small HR teams screening candidates cheaply
  • Recruiters already on Workable
  • Career changers exploring fit
  • Solo recruiters wanting flat pricing

Not for

  • Enterprises needing validated, clinical-grade selection science
  • Teams needing proctoring or anti-cheating controls
  • Buyers who must audit vendor security before signing
  • Anyone needing a proven, stable vendor

Gotchas - check before you buy

high

Security page 404s. No public certifications, policies, or data practices to review.

medium

No proctoring; unproctored personality tests are easy for candidates to game.

medium

$0.95 Premium trial exists; renewal terms unclear, verify before paying.

low

Flat $199/mo whether 50 or 500 hires/year; per-hire cost swings widely.

Pros and cons

Pros

  • 205+ free tests: Big Five, MBTI, DISC, Enneagram
  • Flat $199/mo for teams, no annual commitment
  • No sales-gated tier below Enterprise; free through Growth
  • Workable integration ships 49 hire-eligible assessments
  • Open research corpus of 603,625 completed assessments

Cons

  • Security page returns a 404
  • Reddit users call it shady; trust concerns
  • Results labeled educational, not clinical, weak for selection decisions
  • 71 pages of self-published comparison content; credibility rests on own claims
  • Pre-seed stage, only $500K raised, vendor longevity risk

Sources & method

- 12 sources - No known vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed. The security page itself returns a 404 and no certifications are cited.

official x9review x1security x1news x1

Key stats

  • Value for money: 4/5

    Rating

  • $0

    Starting price

  • 12

    Sources

  • Analyzed

  • Value for money: 4/5. Flat $199/mo undercuts Wonderlic; generous free tier
  • Ease of use: 4/5. Instant results, guided journeys, no setup cited
  • Feature depth: 4/5. 205+ tests; 186 for hiring; Workable integration
  • Support quality. No evidence in reviewed sources
  • Security posture: 2/5. Security page 404s; no certifications found
  • $199/mo Starting price (teams) Flat, no annual commitment
  • $0.95 Premium trial Detailed reports, salary benchmarks
  • 205+ Free tests Big Five, MBTI, DISC, Enneagram
  • $500K Funding Pre-seed, Jan 2024

Pricing

Free

$0

  • 205+ tests
  • Basic results
  • Guided journeys

Premium

$0.95 trial

  • Detailed career reports
  • Salary benchmarks
  • Blind spots

Growth/Teams

$199/mo

  • 186 hiring assessments
  • No annual commitment
  • Same price at 50–500 hires/yr

Enterprise

Sales-gated

  • Custom terms
  • Pricing undisclosed

Security

No known vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.

The security page itself returns a 404 and no certifications are cited.

What users say

Independent user feedback is scarce; the found thread is sharply negative.

“Don't trust this at all. They are shady.”
Reddit, r/Scam_Finder

Alternatives

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Full analysis

Based on 20+ public sources; most comparison content is JobCannon's own marketing, so independent validation is thin.

205+ free personality tests, $199/mo flat hiring assessments. But security page 404s, no proctoring, trust signals weak.

Methodology

Based on 20+ public sources; most comparison content is JobCannon's own marketing, so independent validation is thin.

Read how a report is made.

Sources

  1. JobCannon homepagejobcannon.io
    official
  2. Pricingjobcannon.io
    official
  3. Free assessmentsjobcannon.io
    official
  4. Talent acquisition for HRjobcannon.io
    official
  5. Workable integrationjobcannon.io
    official
  6. JobCannon vs Wonderlicjobcannon.io
    official
  7. JobCannon vs Testlifyjobcannon.io
    official
  8. JobCannon vs Adafacejobcannon.io
    official
  9. Product security page (404)jobcannon.io
    security
  10. Jobcannon — Reddit r/Scam_Finderreddit.com
    review
  11. JobCannon raises $500,000 pre-seedthesaasnews.com
    news
  12. Assessment response corpusjobcannon.io
    official

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