--- title: Cornerstone Performance Reviews meta_title: 'Cornerstone Performance Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 123 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Cornerstone Performance works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.0 review_count: 123 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-13' parent_category: name: Talent Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/talent-management --- # Cornerstone Performance Reviews **Vendor:** Cornerstone OnDemand **Category:** [Performance Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/performance-management) **Average Rating:** 4.0/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 123 ## About Cornerstone Performance Cornerstone Performance enables companies to revamp the employee experience with clear & measurable goals, transparent career paths, targeted development plans, and continuous feedback channels. Identify high performers or employees qualified for performing specific job functions and close skill gaps using the Skills Matrix. Record and assess skills in real-time to determine employee competency using Observation Checklists. Automate performance reviews with a variety of features including employee goals and competency assessments. When combined with Cornerstone Learning, development plans can offer customized training recommendations powered by machine learning. Cornerstone powers the future ready workforce. With adaptive HR software designed to unite people, teams, technology, and business, our products inspire a work environment of growth, agility, and success for all. We built our AI-powered and skills-forward system for the contemporary workforce. Organizations that use Cornerstone modernize their learning and development experience, deliver the most relevant content from anywhere, accelerate talent and career mobility, and establish skills as the universal language of growth and success. Cornerstone serves over 7,000 customers and 140 million users and is available in 186 countries and 50 languages. For more information, visit www.cornerstoneondemand.com. ## Cornerstone Performance Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users praise the **feature-rich capabilities** of Cornerstone Performance, appreciating its ability to manage complex processes effectively. (1 reviews) - Users value the **feature-rich functionality** of Cornerstone Performance, effectively handling complex processes with ease. (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find the **complex administration** daunting, requiring extensive training to navigate and manage effectively. (1 reviews) - Users find the **complex features** of Cornerstone Performance difficult to navigate, especially for admin management and reporting. (1 reviews) - Users find the **complexity of admin navigation** in Cornerstone Performance to be challenging and frustrating without training. (1 reviews) - Users find the **complex setup** of Cornerstone Performance frustrating, requiring extensive training for effective administration. (1 reviews) - Users find the **UI overly complex and outdated** , making admin navigation and customization frustrating and time-consuming. (1 reviews) - Confusing Functionality (1 reviews) - Dashboard Issues (1 reviews) - Data Management (1 reviews) - Difficult Customization (1 reviews) - Difficult Navigation (1 reviews) ## Cornerstone Performance Reviews ### 1. Great product, the Performance module is fantastic! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Human Resources | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 05, 2019 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Performance?** The one thing that I really enjoy most is the goals section of the performance module. We've found it very easy for our end users to navigate this section, and see the major impact it has on them utilizing it. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Performance?** We wish there was more functionality with some of the feedback options. Although Cornerstone offers some reporting capabilities around the feedback in the system (fast feedback, etc.), they could always build on that. **Recommendations to others considering Cornerstone Performance:** Make some more enhancements to the performance reporting. That's our biggest and current recommendation! **What problems is Cornerstone Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?** The biggest problem we're solving is helping people achieve the professional goals they're looking to hit, as well as providing them with the materials and opportunities to see what else our firm has to offer to them. We're really working on trying to promote internal mobility at our firm, and utilizing the performance module is a big piece for us. ### 2. Simple and clear system for users **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rebecca S. | Business Operations Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 27, 2019 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Performance?** The actual reviews are a breeze for users. As an admin it is good to not have to troubleshoot apart from the odd password reset (when they don't see the link) or the very rare issue. The alerts and wizard allows them to follow through and prevents them moving on if they didn't add information correctly. When you have a lot of staff all around the world this is a huge plus. It also allows us to set goals and competencies per department to disseminate the old school way which is harder to do with less flexible and more simplistic systems these days. The AM and Success Manager are also the best! **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Performance?** There is some inflexibility in the system that we do not like and the support team, even though improved recently with new systems, could do with fixing issues more promptly considering reviews are often all about deadlines and these issues can hold things up for weeks at a time. On saying that, our Account Manager and Success Manager are fantastic and go out of their way to help us use the tools as well as we can. **Recommendations to others considering Cornerstone Performance:** Do a thorough scope before you start adding all your OUs and metrics. **What problems is Cornerstone Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?** Performance reviews, development plans, feedback, goals. **Official Response from Lindsey Haines (Deane):** > Hi Rebecca, Thank you so much for reviewing our Performance Suite. I am glad you like the review process and feel supported by account management. As we approach year-end review season, please reach out to us at wecare@csod.com if there's anything we can do to assist. We truly appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts. ### 3. Core Performance **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sarah S. | HRIS Analyst , Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 05, 2019 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Performance?** The core of performance (reviews and goals) is solid. We know it works and gives us the output we need and how leaders want to see it. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Performance?** Getting deeper into performance, there are some enhancements that would build trust with our leaders and the Cornerstone product. Succession has a serious gap between helicopter view, calibration and Snapshot. We have recently removed the helicopter view functionality from our leaders because of the confusion - what is the true placement? When they don't update to and from each other, there is a lack of trust in the data we provide. We also need more reporting options for in progress tasks. We turned on the new dev plan UI and like the look, but there are some flexibility issues for us. We want to brand the preferences/templates, but find it rigid. For example, the Description field is confusing to our users. They see this and and enter their full plan. We want to change the wording for all fields to make it more customized for our users. Competency assessment report has the same issue - VERY limiting on customization and branding. Our leaders are looking at other vendors to meet this need. **What problems is Cornerstone Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mid year reviews - can't wait for Conversations to help meet this need. However, you MUST have a "Draft" status available so we can use these the functionality for not only ongoing conversations, but also documenting difficult conversations. Without an option for a leader to save their pre-discussion notes, the buy-in will be low. The suggestion from the round table was to have the manager use One Note to document their notes pre-conversation and then copy them into the system - our leaders would absolutely not appreciate this "work-around". The response would be - then why have the system. So, while I do think Conversations will solve several areas, but it has to be usable for difficult conversations from the leader's point of view. ### 4. The performance module helps us document our performance in one place with reporting and dashboards **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lisa G. | HRIS Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 03, 2019 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Performance?** I liked how easy it is to create tasks and update by extending dates and reopening steps. I like the email triggers to help move the process along. I like the continuous feedback feature. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Performance?** I really wish their was an email tag in the feedback response email to recipients manager. The only email tag is for requestors manager but when our managers request feedback, we don't want their manager being informed when feedback responses are received. We want the receipents manager to be informed. Our managers complain about this alot. It seems like a simple solution and it's on suggestion city. **What problems is Cornerstone Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?** My CSM Riana helped me figure out how to create a task to go to managers only and not the staff member which was a cool work around to assign it to the staff but only have a section for managers which worked out nicely. I wouldn't have thought it would work that way. It saved the day for a task to ask managers for bonus recommendations. ### 5. Robust and Customizable Talent Management Suite **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chelsea R. | Global Talent Management Specialist, Financial Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 15, 2016 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Performance?** Cornerstone is a well developed Talent Management system that has a very robust list of features that are easily configured and branded to meet your organizational needs. The interface is user friendly and the "clouds" (Learning, Performance, Succession, Recruiting, Connect) integrate very nicely. Cornerstone is very customizable, brand-able, and configurable to meet many different Organizational needs. Customizations by Division allow us to support varying business needs. We support multiple co-op companies in our single portal, yet their experience is unique for their business. One of my favorite things about Cornerstone is the community--they have excellent staff and support team, and they provide many opportunities for Clients to engage with each other, network and share best practices and ideas. There is opportunity for clients to voice their needs and suggestions and they really listen to their customers. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Performance?** They have experienced some growing pains with their global product support team. They are vigilently addressing these issues with a redesign that has been improving the process for support. **Recommendations to others considering Cornerstone Performance:** We have found Cornerstone to be a great tool to help us engage and develop our staff. It is highly configurable, and in such it's hard to discover all that it can do on your own. I recommend getting involved in the Cornerstone Communities of Practice, local user groups, and other networking opportunities. These are great resources to learn how other companies are harnessing the power of the system. I've learned and grown so much interacting and sharing with other clients. **What problems is Cornerstone Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?** We primarily use Cornerstone for Performance Management and Succession. They have enabled us to implement a new staff/supervisor relationship model that encourages continual feedback. We've replaced our Annual Reviews with a process throughout the year. Staff and supervisors are building better relationships, work expectations and Goals are clear and trackable, staff are creating development plans, and they are getting the affirmation, coaching, and feedback that they need. ### 6. Customizable Performance Management **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brian W. | Leadership and Organizational Development Business Analyst , Consumer Goods, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Performance?** Extremely customizable. Can build reviews and 360 as detailed or as simple as needed. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Performance?** Most end users don't get enough exposer to understand all of the quirks. **What problems is Cornerstone Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?** Focusing reviews on feedback. This product provides the flexibility to meet our goals. ### 7. Highly functional and easy to use from an end user perspective **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 06, 2019 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Performance?** I like the various options that are available for customizing the forms and tasks when creating unique performance tasks, feedback, etc. Personalizing tools for the individual companies that report up to Corporate helps to retain the companies brand and still bring all companies together. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Performance?** There are a few things that I believe need to be tweaked. 1.) When in Emails there is the Performance Task Assigned email...however it is generalized for all types of tasks that could be created. Example - I created an Off-cycle task and wanted that specific email to send, however I don't want it to send for other Tasks. 2.) Would LOVE to have the ability to add additional "availability' to tasks that are already in progress and set the assignment date to be updated for that additional user group. Sort of like versioning but only based on availability and assignment date. That way I can run reports and view activity based on the task and not multiple others created just to add a user. 3.) I would like to have the ability to select emails about the task within the task set up. Not just the steps in the task. 4.) It would be great to have an easy way to grant access to using the Feedback tool AFTER completion of a task. Example: a learner completes a course or review task and upon completion they are now able to give and receive feedback. Maybe the next year all learners do the same to refresh knowledge on how to give/receive feedback and sign an attestation to be able to re-engage in the feedback tool. **What problems is Cornerstone Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are just now opening up the Feedback Tool, and have plans for Development Plans, Competency Assessments, and the Conversations tool that is coming up. We are implementing these tools in our culture to increase social knowledge, growth through feedback, career development goals, and set us up for Succession planning. Hope to realize benefits within the next year as we approach the May 2020 performance review. **Official Response from Lindsey Haines (Deane):** > Thank you for your review and most importantly, your feedback. Your suggestions around how to improve our performance capabilities have been passed on to our Product team who will dig deeper into the details you have given us. I've also posted your feedback on your behalf in Cornerstone's suggestion city not only for our Product team but also for your fellow peers to see. We truly appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts. Pleach out to wecare@csod.com if you'd like to continue the conversation. ### 8. Performance and Succession modules are interesting but do come along with a lot of restrictions **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food Production | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 03, 2019 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Performance?** I really like that you can connect both inputs, and review them in the same space. It is easy to distinguish both as well as using one input for the other **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Performance?** There are a lot of restrictions that are certainly not expressed in the Help menu. For example, if you create a dynamic task and you have it open for a long time (maybe 3 weeks), every time you change some information for a user, (s)he will appear as a new one an get the task assigned again. There are other examples to share that I would love to discuss and solve with you guys. **What problems is Cornerstone Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?** We can ensure that all companies within our group get evaluated in performance and succession equally (the process is the same, the task is the same, that way we can compare evaluations among companies). We can also identify possible successors according to the given evaluations, and see if they fit in any other company or position other than the one they belong to. **Official Response from Hayley Handler:** > Hi there, Thank you for your feedback. That's wonderful to hear the synergy between the reviews and succession tasks are working well in tune with your current processes. I am sorry to hear that you've encountered some limitations within our Succession system, and we'd love to hear more about your discoveries. If you're interested in giving us more details or having a conversation, feel free to email us at wecare@csod.com and we can connect you with our product team. Once again, we appreciate your feedback and hope we can improve your experience. ### 9. Very useful to manage your employees **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David V. | Gestión de Inside Sales, CRM y Marketing, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 27, 2019 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Performance?** A lot of options to configure, you can manage curriculums, timetables, make gamification, studies...incredible **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Performance?** Possibly the price, a bit expensive, but it's a great solution and probably is the best on the market **What problems is Cornerstone Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?** Manage easylly the employees, verá automatized options, I won a lot of time ### 10. Well Rounded software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2019 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Performance?** The most helpful software I have found to identify skill/competency gaps. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Performance?** Reporting could be a little easier, but is still good. **Recommendations to others considering Cornerstone Performance:** I think that you should re-evaluate your performance system to ensure its effectiveness so that you can make the most out of all the software has to offer. **What problems is Cornerstone Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?** Identifying skill gaps is the most important because it helps each of us to figure out how we can be developed to better work together in achieving our overall mission. ### 11. Performance - Cornerstone **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gustav K. | HR Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 05, 2019 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Performance?** I like the ability to create automated emails and schedule the reviews ahead of time. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Performance?** I dislike the customization limitations, changing words to match with your orgs vernacular is almost impossible and comes at a cost that is very high for a seemingly simple adjustment tot language. **Recommendations to others considering Cornerstone Performance:** Cornerstone is good for traditional review process Employee then manager work flow. Gets a little wonky when you try to customize that process. **What problems is Cornerstone Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are solving the problem of the old stale annual perf reviews and creating a culture of continuous feedback. Cornerstone allows us to launch customized reviews company wide. **Official Response from Hayley Handler:** > Hi Gustav, Thank you for your feedback. Great to hear that Cornerstone has been able to assist in rolling out a continuous feedback culture through customized performance reviews. I'm sorry that the lack of language customization has been your experience though. We are actively looking for different ways to modernize the performance process, so I will make sure that your comment is passed on to our Product team. We hope you find this helpful and if you need additional help in escalating this issue to the right team, please email me directly at wecare@csod.com. Once again, we appreciate your feedback and hope we can turn your experience around. ### 12. performance review **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Real Estate | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Performance?** i like the ability to play wiht configuration **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Performance?** i don't like that you are limited with your edit time after you save a task it makes no sense! **What problems is Cornerstone Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?** problems around task configuration - categories etc ### 13. Performance Reviews Easy to Use **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 04, 2019 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Performance?** I like the fact that I am able to customize each step of my performance review process and then add it to the performance review task, so I can make each task individualized to my needs. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Performance?** I don't like that I can't have employees create goals within a performance review task and have them approved by a manager; currently we have to have our employees create goals outside of a task to ensure they are approved by their manager. **What problems is Cornerstone Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have benefited from CSOD Performance by being able to build a multi-step process for our employees to complete throughout the year all within one task. We are able to track completion of one task rather than individual/multiple tasks. ### 14. Performance and Succession **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Monica O. | SVP, Global Talent Management, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 05, 2019 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Performance?** Flexibility if the system. Custom fields. Groups to be able to drive tasks. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Performance?** Reports! Reporting out of succession is dreadful and incomplete as far as being able to provide individualized reports to managers to use with their team members. **Recommendations to others considering Cornerstone Performance:** Set up an outside data warehouse for reporting. **What problems is Cornerstone Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?** Very flexible performance and succession process. Helping us drive great conversations about our talent globally. Raising visibility of our high potential talent and ability to place them in development programs. ### 15. Recent performance implementation using goals, reviews, and observation checklists **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 04, 2019 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Performance?** Upside is automation. I can pull a report to check statuses on reviews and to check competencies. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Performance?** I would like the universal profile to connect performance, learning, and certifications. To track certifications I receive during performance review, I need to upload them to either Snapshot or the Certification Module which does not connect to performance, observation checklists, or the user account. I need one central repository for significant documents for the user where all modules can receive them. **What problems is Cornerstone Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using it for annual performance reviews, mid-year reviews, quarterly meetings, career ladder/progression development using competencies. This is our first year using the system so we have not had an opportunity to see all the benefits. ### 16. performance **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Restaurants | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 03, 2019 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Performance?** The performance report its good. In general the platform is useful. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Performance?** I think it could be more easy for users to follow the performance process. Its not intuitive as I would expect. When you have negative KPIS like turnover its complicated to use. The marginal camp its not easy to understand. I suggest that you improve this module because its very important for people development. **Recommendations to others considering Cornerstone Performance:** In Mexico you dont have a good partner to implement this module. We really want to have succesfull with performance but really we need help!!! Thanks. I hope some be in touch with me. **What problems is Cornerstone Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?** Every person in the organization have a clear objectives and it help us to performance measure. ### 17. ineresting tool for performance management and review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 03, 2019 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Performance?** nice tool. nice the possibility to use also the mobile app. allows to manage the periodic review of the performance and give a nice view of the situation of the collaborators **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Performance?** it's very expensive and the objectives to be assigned **What problems is Cornerstone Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?** need to manage the personal performance and the performance of the team ### 18. Performance Feedback **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jeff B. | VP, Quality & Training, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 05, 2019 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Performance?** The ease in which Goals flow through and tie together with 360 feedback for year end reviews **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Performance?** The inability to apply 2nd level managers or dotted line managers into the process **Recommendations to others considering Cornerstone Performance:** Has all the right tools to effectively develop and direct people to gain alignment throughout the organization **What problems is Cornerstone Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?** Better transparency and accountability for results which also provides us better data on HCM when looking at benchstrength ### 19. Customization is key **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jennifer C. | Director of Human Resources, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 03, 2019 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Performance?** Our desired performance review styles and features for numerous employee groups were customized with this product. We have different formats for different groups and the Cornerstone product has offered us the most flexibility. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Performance?** I am not sure that I have found anything yet that I don't like. **What problems is Cornerstone Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?** Customized, organization specific goals, competencies and assessments that needed different evaluation types for multiple categories of employees. ### 20. Performance and LDP **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 06, 2019 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Performance?** We love the new layout of the LDP interface and are preparing to launch but there are certain features such as being able to see who has completed the LDP in Reporting 2.0 we would like to see enabled. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Performance?** It is difficult to measure. Would like to do away with Standard reporting and easily measure employee LDP statuses. **Recommendations to others considering Cornerstone Performance:** Be sure that the end user is always kept in mind when implementing new features. **What problems is Cornerstone Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?** Community group outreach, compliance standards, intuitiveness among all age groups and general AI features that help to take out learning to the next level, **Official Response from Hayley Handler:** > Hi there! Thank you for your feedback. That's helpful to know about how you're trying to report on LDPs. I've passed this along to our product team for further evaluation and development! Feel free to reach out to your customer success representatives or the Client Success Community if there are other details you think are important! We hope you find this helpful and if you need additional help in escalating this issue to the right team, please email me directly at wecare@csod.com. ### 21. Great system! **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Toyia K S. | Vice President Human Resources , Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 05, 2019 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Performance?** It is easy for employees to engage with. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Performance?** We are spending too much time with client support. We should be further along in our processes. **Recommendations to others considering Cornerstone Performance:** Not sure **What problems is Cornerstone Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?** I think we implemented too fast. We should have didn’t mire time creating our process a d workflow up front. I wish Cornerstone could have assisted with that. ### 22. Performance Evaluations & IDP **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lisa M. | Principal Technical Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 05, 2019 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Performance?** Customizable configurations like HTML space to write process and instructions for review steps **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Performance?** Not being able to report on all development plan fields - training item and action items in one report. **What problems is Cornerstone Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automating and increasing compliance with performance reviews. Using Dev plans to track 20 hours of development opportunities for all employees. ### 23. Performance made easy **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andrea M. | HR project manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 05, 2019 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Performance?** It’s easy to establish the tasks and configure what you need when you need it. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Performance?** Unknown date issues during task. We will work through but didn’t know impact prior to launch **What problems is Cornerstone Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?** Working through what worked and what we need to change for next review. ### 24. Performance continues to offer new functionality and allows us to grow our org talent. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bailey M. | Senior Human Resources Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 05, 2019 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Performance?** We use Succession an Performance reviews significantly. The easy of access and overall functionally make flow easy and seamless. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Performance?** I wish the interface was more visually appealing. **What problems is Cornerstone Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?** Career pathing has always been an area of struggle but with performance we are bridging the gap ### 25. Performance is great! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 04, 2019 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Performance?** I love the ease of Cornerstone Performance for our end users - they all talk about how easy it is in comparison to our previous platform. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Performance?** I wish it was easier for setting up 6 month reviews **Recommendations to others considering Cornerstone Performance:** Set this up early and test to be sure it is working the way you expect it to - you can't go back and do over once it is set up. **What problems is Cornerstone Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have had a HUGE improvement in users completing their performance reviews! ### 26. performance **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** gabriela d. | organizational developement, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 03, 2019 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Performance?** the visibility we have of everyone in the company **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Performance?** maybe sometimes the technical problems affect us in times **What problems is Cornerstone Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?** measuring performance , we get to know how people are working and how is their performance in the company ### 27. Overall the experience with the performance module has been pleasant. Most frustrations are configs. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Qiana L. | HRIS Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 03, 2019 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Performance?** the flexibility behind the configuration **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Performance?** some of the limitations regarding goal setting **What problems is Cornerstone Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?** We recently implemented the module to have an automated performance review process. The process is now more consistent and efficient. ### 28. Implementing Performance Module **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 03, 2019 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Performance?** The core platform, including all other modules like learning, succession, recruiting, engage, & connect allows people to have one place to do all of their talent management **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Performance?** challenges with implementation of IBM kenexa talent data; some of the UI/UX is different between modules **Recommendations to others considering Cornerstone Performance:** know your user data, know your company's future approach to performance management **What problems is Cornerstone Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?** inability to run reports like the competency bank, competency models, and goal templates ### 29. Cornerstone Performance **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Aviation & Aerospace | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 03, 2019 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Performance?** Observation Checklists is our newest favorite feature. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Performance?** We use performance reviews for probationary evaluations but a user can only be assigned the task one time which forces use to do some work arounds. **What problems is Cornerstone Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?** Performance reviews and development plans have enabled us to successfully implement a merit based bonus program with our union workforce. We would never be able to do this without the tools that Cornerstone provides.. ### 30. I use cornerstone performance evals for my subordinates **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** marisol r. | VCFD Fire Captain, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 04, 2019 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Performance?** no handwritten evals. better long term storage. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Performance?** It is still confusing for my subordinates **What problems is Cornerstone Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?** a little quciker than than the handwritten version **Official Response from Hayley Handler:** > Hi Marisol, Thank you for your feedback. Happy to hear that Cornerstone has been able to help digitize your performance review process. I'm sorry that the user experience is confusing for your subordinates. May we recommend reaching out to a client success manager to discuss your specific use case and see if we can better assist? We also hold community of practices every quarter where many of clients meet to share common pain points and discuss best practices or alternative work arounds. This could be a great way to learn from fellow your peers and see if we can help make the roll out a little less confusing. We hope you find this helpful and if you need additional help in escalating this issue to the right team, please email me directly at wecare@csod.com. Once again, we appreciate your feedback and hope we can turn your experience around. ### 31. Performance Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Public Safety | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 04, 2019 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Performance?** I like the observation checklists from the Performance Suite. They help ensure objective evaluations of task performance for our trainees. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Performance?** Updating/editing checklists that have already been established with tasks and competency models. **What problems is Cornerstone Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?** Moving from subjective evaluations of trainees to objective task-based evaluations that allow us to hone in on where to focus training and track progression through practical training. ### 32. Related Review **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Commercial Real Estate | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 04, 2019 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Performance?** I like the specific form sections The HRSG Comptency model is clear and easy to use **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Performance?** Email Digest Email Triggers Inability to rename steps 2000 person succession collaboration limitation **What problems is Cornerstone Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?** unique configuration of competencies tailoring populations succession - limitations **Official Response from Lindsey Haines (Deane):** > Thank you for your review. That's great to hear the HRSG competency model is working well for you. I want to let you know that your specific comments have been seen by our Product team. To help us better understand what limitations you are specifically encountering, please email wecare@csod.com. Once again, we appreciate your feedback and hope we can turn your experience around. ### 33. Improved usability - still not intuitive **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 31, 2018 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Performance?** The progress bars. As a manager its easy to evaluate how far along in a long goal and employee assesses themselves to be and is helpful in realignment conversations. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Performance?** This system continues to struggle with intuitive usability. For instance, there is are several places and ways people can enter or maintain goals, but none of these are connected or interchangeable. **What problems is Cornerstone Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Cornerstone OnDemand for performance management. I am not a fan of this system and find the lack of intuitive features frustrates people on my team as well. ### 34. Middle of the road interface **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Performance?** Navigation within the software is acceptable and the calendar feature allows users to identify potential training events and courses. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Performance?** The performance review module is rather clunky. It's functional, but completed items disappear by default, making prior period referencing more cumbersome than necessary. **What problems is Cornerstone Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Cornerstone OnDemand for in-house corporate trainings across all departments, which allows all employees to see courses available to them. ### 35. Cornerstone OnDemand **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Goods | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 10, 2018 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Performance?** Our Company uses Cornerstone OnDemand for our Performance Management and LMS. Because we use ADP HRIS all our information feeds into the Performance Management and LMS systems and Managers can view all their direct reports information. They can complete the performance reviews easily and assign any necessary training. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Performance?** The system is great as is but it is limited in the customization you can have on the home page without paying for a re-design. However if you do have budget the customization options are amazing and can really allow you to brand the system for your company. **What problems is Cornerstone Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is our one stop shop for performance management with link included for training for all our users. We are building out our LMS portion to move more training on online to allow employees to complete at their own pace. ### 36. Good for employee reviews **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 13, 2018 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Performance?** That everything online is prompted and automated- keeping the process moving. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Performance?** The human component makes it challenging if the administrator does not update items. **What problems is Cornerstone Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?** Employee reviews- both self and manager, goal setting- both self and manager ### 37. Teacher performance made easy **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Fanny Z. | Facilitator, Education Management, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 08, 2017 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Performance?** What I like best about Cornerstone is the way I can easily track my progress in my career field. It makes it quick and simply for my manager give feedback on growth and setbacks.Any additional objectives needing attention can also be found on my dashboard as well. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Performance?** The only thing I dislike about Cornerstone is the the setup of the website. I personally feel as if there is an extremely confusing setup for no reason. While many tabs can be easily accessed there are other things that don't make that much sense as far as layout is concerned. **Recommendations to others considering Cornerstone Performance:** I HIGHLY recommend Cornerstone OnDemand for all employers and employees. It's so easy to track performance as well as keep up with your won growth. It puts the accountability on the company as well as workers making it easier to reflect. **What problems is Cornerstone Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?** I don't have any "business problems" to solve per say. I mainly have only objectives to finish at the end of each quarter. Usually reflections to do of my own or of my direct manager and principals based on performance management. ### 38. Good product **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 28, 2017 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Performance?** This allows us to easily manage employee goals and progress. This is great for check-ins and mid-year evaluations. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Performance?** I wish the mobile app was more user friendly--it is clunky and doesn't allow me to do everything that I want. **What problems is Cornerstone Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cornerstone OnDemand makes it easy for me to manage HR fuctions in one place. ### 39. Underwhelming **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Practice | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 05, 2017 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Performance?** Everything looks great on paper, but it is not well received by our employees and it seems to take a great deal of effort to implement different features. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Performance?** Requires a full-time employee to run this system which we don't have. It is a little too complex and robust for our needs (500 employees). **Recommendations to others considering Cornerstone Performance:** Hire a full time admin and designate someone as the project lead for implementation. We set this up with a handful of people giving partial attention to the project and I don't think we are making the most of its features. **What problems is Cornerstone Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?** Compliance reporting is helpful as well as the global search feature. The performance management team used to do everything in Excel and they are thrilled with the electronic management of this process through CSOD. **Official Response from Lindsey Haines (Deane):** > Hello, Thank you for your feedback. I am sorry to hear that this has been your experience with the implementation and general usage of the tool. We agree that the solution is robust as it is intended to meet a wide range of client configuration needs. We also support many organizations with 500 or fewer users, only using parts of the tool that best meet their organizational needs. To help educate administrators, we offer a comprehensive curriculum of micro-learning courses, allowing clients to choose the titles specifically aligned to the outcomes they are looking to achieve (we also supplement our self-paced training with live instructor-led sessions). We offer this training approach to allow our busy administrators to spend less time in the tool and more time in the business, supporting their people. Sorry again that you had this experience and perhaps expectations could have been clearer. If you're interested in giving us more detail or having a conversation, feel free to email us at wecare@csod.com. ### 40. Easy to use program **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Marika B. | Surgical Assistant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2017 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Performance?** Charts are easy to find and every patients record is very detailed. Format is very easy to learn and program has minimal issues. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Performance?** There can be a lot of information that it becomes overwhelming but it can easily be fixed when you become more familiar with each process. **Recommendations to others considering Cornerstone Performance:** Very easy program that allows you to record a lot of data on each patient. Simple viewing bar that allows you to see what you are looking for. **What problems is Cornerstone Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?** It creates easy to access information for each patient and learn about past histories ### 41. Excellent **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Megan S. | Forensic Scientist 1, Chemicals, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 10, 2018 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Performance?** I like the interactive ability as well as the structure **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Performance?** Sometimes the structure is too rigid and doesn't allow flexibility **What problems is Cornerstone Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?** Communicating across the state ### 42. Easy to use for annual review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 28, 2017 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Performance?** The Cornerstone system makes it easy to complete an annual review by walking you through the process step by step, keeping track of your progress, and saving your goals from the previous year, allowing you to recall the information without having to search for it. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Performance?** I wish I could skip ahead to see what's next after my supervisor reads my review. **Recommendations to others considering Cornerstone Performance:** Unsure - I have only used the system once for my annual performance review. So far, it seems better than using a paper copy and having to store it for years to come. **What problems is Cornerstone Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?** My employer used this system to move to a paperless review. It also allows you to pull items from your previous reviews, such as your performance goals, without having to search for them. ### 43. Not a Fan **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2017 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Performance?** Very generic and overly complicated. It's problematic with it's auto-email notifications. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Performance?** I do not like the frequency that evaluations have to be done. **What problems is Cornerstone Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?** Lack of good record keeping. ### 44. Great software, not keeping up with current development needs **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Religious Institutions | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2018 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Performance?** Cornerstone is very powerful, great for employee reviews, and employee info. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Performance?** Slow platform, hard to teach and deploy. **What problems is Cornerstone Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tracking employee info, on boarding, and performance. ### 45. Decent for employee review **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food Production | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2018 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Performance?** The simplicity of the application for employees. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Performance?** From an employee perspective there wasn’t much I disliked. **What problems is Cornerstone Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?** Employee resolution and performance ### 46. Cornerstone OnDemand helps employees stay engaged **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brittany L. | Director, Physician Operations, Hospital & Health Care, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 06, 2017 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Performance?** I like that cornerstone provides lots of different topics to peak interests of all employees. They focus on engaging the entire company which is nice. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Performance?** Sometimes they have excessive emails but overall they always catch my attention and provide helpful feedback. **What problems is Cornerstone Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?** Employee engagement. Hot topics in Healthcare ### 47. Just Changed to Cornerstone **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tessa P. | PNP, Hospital & Health Care, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2017 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Performance?** We just recently transitioned to the Cornerstone system from the Chex learning module system. Cornerstone offer so much data and so many options that it's easy to get lost in the information/lessons. It takes a bit to get used to, but once learned, the system is functional. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Performance?** It's easy to get lost and get buried in the windows and information. **Recommendations to others considering Cornerstone Performance:** It handles what it's needed to handle with large groups of people across multiple campuses. It may take you in circles but you'll get there. **What problems is Cornerstone Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?** None ### 48. Performance Software **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mining & Metals | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 28, 2017 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Performance?** Online tracking system, dashboard view, task assignments **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Performance?** Haven't found anything to dislike. Just started to use it. **What problems is Cornerstone Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?** Central system to administer and manage performance reviews ### 49. Educator getting performance reviews through Cornerstone **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Stephanie B. | Bilingual Guided Reading Teacher, Education Management, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 23, 2017 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Performance?** It is easy to navigate, formatted well and allows for us to rate ourselves on teaching competencies and then allows our manager to do the same. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Performance?** I have found that there are times it closes tasks too early and makes it nearly impossible to find them again. It can be a struggle if our school has a different deadline than our whole district. **What problems is Cornerstone Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have really learned to use our evaluations effectively to improve our teaching practices. ### 50. Simplifying isn't always Simple **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 05, 2017 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Performance?** The reporting metrics and analytics were strong. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Performance?** The system was a lot of work to set up and took a lot of time to input all the competencies and customize the way our company wanted to use the tool. **Recommendations to others considering Cornerstone Performance:** We were in the process of developing a new performance management process and implementing Cornerstone at the same time. Make sure that you have your ducks in line on how your want your process to work before you start the implementation with Cornerstone so you know the tool can do everything you want it to do. **What problems is Cornerstone Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were developing a new performance management program based on goals and competencies and wanted to streamline it and make it digital to get rid of all the "paperwork" and manual effort associated with reviews. In the end, the system didn't really work very well for us because we could not get the back end algorithms to align properly even though Cornerstone provide a lot of special support for us. ## Cornerstone Performance Discussions - [How do you create a customized performance review dashboard that will give real time completion %?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/12413-how-do-you-create-a-customized-performance-review-dashboard-that-will-give-real-time-completion) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [View Cornerstone Performance pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/cornerstone-performance/reviews?page=2§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-16+20%3A15%3A26+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=ae5c9cbc-61ad-4fa3-9cb7-79245af919b2&secure%5Btoken%5D=909b96fe1285f0b77eb8d9712aa7b07f7512d5220da07cdc59f184b0b029ea34&format=llm_user) ## Cornerstone Performance Integrations - [Good-Loop](https://www.g2.com/products/good-loop/reviews) - [HiBob HRIS](https://www.g2.com/products/hibob-hris/reviews) ## Cornerstone Performance Features **Basics** - Reporting - Interoperability - Performance **Operations** - Personnel Management - Talent Management - Regulation and Compliance - Metrics and Reporting - Third-Party Integrations **Platform Basics** - Reporting - Interoperability - Performance **Performance reviews** - 360 Reviews - Customizable Forms - Review Status Tracking **Generative AI** - AI Text Generation - AI Text Summarization **Additional Functionality** - Portal - Mobility - Dashboard **Platform Basics** - Performance Benchmarking - Reporting & Dashboards - Interoperability **Platform Content ** - Employee Tracking - Employee Development - Career Development **Goals** - Goal-Setting - Company Goals And OKRs **Content** - Automation - File Sharing **Platform Content** - Employee Pulse Surveys - Survey Customization - Goal and Challenge Creation - Science-based templates **Platform Additional Functionality ** - Dashboard - Mobility - Task Management - Portal - Integrations **Feedback** - Continuous Feedback - Requesting Feedback - 1-On-1 Meetings - Public Praise **Platform Additional Functionality** - Employee Segmenting - Goal and Challenge Creation - Peer Recognition - Social Feedback Portal **Data** - Dashboards And Reports - Historical Data **Platform** - Customization - Integration APIs - Internationalization - User, Role, and Access Management - Dashboards **Agentic AI - Performance Management** - Multi-step Planning - Natural Language Interaction ## Top Cornerstone Performance Alternatives - [Lattice](https://www.g2.com/products/lattice-lattice/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (3,952 reviews) - [SAP SuccessFactors HCM](https://www.g2.com/products/sap-sap-successfactors-hcm/reviews) - 4.1/5.0 (1,474 reviews) - [UKG Pro](https://www.g2.com/products/ukg-pro/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (2,162 reviews)