--- title: Plum Reviews meta_title: 'Plum Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 71 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Plum works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.4 review_count: 71 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-12' parent_category: name: Recruiting url: https://www.g2.com/categories/recruiting --- # Plum Reviews **Vendor:** Plum.io **Category:** [Recruiting Automation Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/recruiting-automation) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 71 ## About Plum Plum helps organizations unlock the power of durable soft skills to build stronger, more adaptable teams. Our behavioral assessment delivers predictive insights across the entire talent lifecycle, from hiring and development to internal mobility. By focusing on the human capabilities that drive long-term success, Plum equips you to make smarter, fairer, and more future-ready talent decisions at every stage. ## Plum Reviews ### 1. Joshua O'Grady - Sprout - Review of Plum Product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Staffing and Recruiting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Plum?** Shortlisting of candidates, ability to pinpoint exact matches for team success rates of new hires. **What do you dislike about Plum?** Length of time to complete seems to be something candidates can have a challening time with. It is important to detail to users how long it may take them to avoid non-complete profiles. **Recommendations to others considering Plum:** Educate yourself as much as you can on this product. It is imperative you learn the functionality to see the true ability it possesses. **What problems is Plum solving and how is that benefiting you?** Screening and placing talent within specific teams of Tech companies. ### 2. Assessment beyond Interviews **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bhavana H. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2018 **What do you like best about Plum?** I love the way the candidate gets an assessment for their own use which gives them a good idea of their strengths. As a HR, I really like how each category is broken down and explained in detail. **What do you dislike about Plum?** The one thing I do not like is how I cannot forward or email a candidate's assessment to someone in the hiring panel. I need to take a printout and either scan that or hand them a hard copy, both of which are cumbersome methods. **What problems is Plum solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps us to convince the hiring team (when there is no consensus) that a candidate will be a good fit culturally for us. Many times that has been proved as well. ### 3. Time Saver **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 16, 2018 **What do you like best about Plum?** Plum's ability to fine tune requirements on a per role basis is immense, as well as the ability to move candidates amongst roles (rather than having candidates be re-assessed). **What do you dislike about Plum?** Nothing of the Plum platform is disappointing at the present time. **What problems is Plum solving and how is that benefiting you?** Plum has significantly cut down on the time it takes for us to qualify individuals as having the right skill sets to meet the requirements of the positions we post. ### 4. Plum Review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rachel E. | Country Logistics Lead, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 13, 2018 **What do you like best about Plum?** I was able to hire the best candidate for a position, a candidate that I normally would have missed in a traditional CV screen. **What do you dislike about Plum?** Honestly, I'm very happy with the product although my experience has been limited. **What problems is Plum solving and how is that benefiting you?** N/A ### 5. Intuitive Hiring **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Plum?** What I found most useful is how easy it makes it to find great hiring candidates based on criteria you wouldn't normally find in a cookie-cutter resume. It does all the hard work for you. **What do you dislike about Plum?** Perhaps a bit too intuitive and might eliminate great candidates early. **Recommendations to others considering Plum:** Worth a try. Try it yourself. **What problems is Plum solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cheaper hiring by identifying red flags and removing unnecessary interviews. ### 6. An excellent way to whittle down candidates to the essentiasl **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2018 **What do you like best about Plum?** I liked understanding my candidates better by answering a series of simple questions. **What do you dislike about Plum?** I thought sometimes the output could be a bit simplistic, but has shown to be pretty accurate. **What problems is Plum solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our organization is solving the issue of not being able to tell how suitable candidates are for the paritcular requirements that we ask of each of our employees. ### 7. Plum helps to narrow search for quality candidates. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Facilities Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2018 **What do you like best about Plum?** The Plum program is great in matching up applicants with our base criteria when searching for first round interview candidates. It is also easy to separate out and create a list of the applicants that have potential. **What do you dislike about Plum?** I do not like that every cover letter and/or resume must be downloaded in order to be viewed. **What problems is Plum solving and how is that benefiting you?** Plum is streamlining my hiring/interviewing process. Definitely a time saver! ### 8. Great tool for understanding behavioural/cultural fits **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Human Resources | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 16, 2018 **What do you like best about Plum?** Like the simplicity of the system, and the additional insights it gives. Love the team at Plum and their support. Super responsive and helpful. **What do you dislike about Plum?** More market data/research or case studies on the validity of the findings **What problems is Plum solving and how is that benefiting you?** Is this person the right soft skills fit for our company. ### 9. Significant Reduced Time and Cost Associated with Hiring **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mike S. | Managing Partner, Internet, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 27, 2018 **What do you like best about Plum?** - Plum uses intelligent data points curated from our organizational culture and role definitions to produce a short-list of top-tier candidates for each job posting, making it easier to identify best fit candidates - Plum significantly reduces the speed and cost associated with filling open positions **What do you dislike about Plum?** - Certain advanced features (which are on the product roadmap) require manual assistance from the support team. This issue is offset by the fact that the support team is great to interact with. **What problems is Plum solving and how is that benefiting you?** Hiring -- speed and cost reduction. ### 10. Good tool for recruiting and hiring **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Pharmaceuticals | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2018 **What do you like best about Plum?** With Plum, we are able to compare the scores of potential employees with the scores of our top performers. This enables us to better evaluate the personalities of our applicants and aids in determining who is qualified to work at our company. Plum profiles give realistic and accurate insight into the true personalities of individuals. **What do you dislike about Plum?** I do not have any complaints at this time. **Recommendations to others considering Plum:** Plum is a valuable tool for recruiters and hiring managers. **What problems is Plum solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are hiring more qualified individuals thanks to Plum. ### 11. Leader, Strategic Talent Projects **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dorothy W. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2018 **What do you like best about Plum?** the predictive validity of the tool and the awesome customer service. **What do you dislike about Plum?** The current version of the platform is clunky and not intuitive. **Recommendations to others considering Plum:** Amazing tool! **What problems is Plum solving and how is that benefiting you?** Assessing at the top of the recruitment funnel to save time for more meaningful conversations for phone screens and in person interviews. We have started to see historical trends of what our hiring managers prioritize for roles and how that matches to our applicants. ### 12. Excellent tool to scrub through high volumes of applicants **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 26, 2018 **What do you like best about Plum?** Being able to personalize the score matching criteria against a role model is impressive. It is also great to be able to identify potential issues with the candidate that score unusually low in any category. Problem-solving might not be very important for a specific role but do you want someone with four out 100 scores on that? **What do you dislike about Plum?** Lack of seamless integration in HR management platforms. **Recommendations to others considering Plum:** If you want to understand the accuracy try scoring your own people first. You'll recognize quickly that you can learn many things about your team at a much earlier stage. **What problems is Plum solving and how is that benefiting you?** Understanding candidates soft skills ### 13. Interesting recruitment tool. **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mental Health Care | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2018 **What do you like best about Plum?** I enjoy being able to get the interview questions from plum to be tailored to the position that I am looking to fill. I also feel the badges are helpful to get a good sense of what a candidates strengths are. **What do you dislike about Plum?** I feel sometime the tool can be very inaccurate and occasionally misleading. Candidates have noted that they feel the tool does not always accurately portrait them and their ability. **What problems is Plum solving and how is that benefiting you?** Plum is being used as a recruitment tool and a development tool to help employees know some of their areas of strength and areas they may want to develop. ### 14. Invaluable aid in shortlisting candidates **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hashem A. | Director, Venture Capital & Private Equity, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 21, 2018 **What do you like best about Plum?** I liked that it provided an independent guide to some key character attributes that we could use to shortlist candidates. **What do you dislike about Plum?** That I had to download each resume or cover letter to view it! It would be nice to just get an in-window quick view. **What problems is Plum solving and how is that benefiting you?** Making sure we hire good people that are a cultural and personality fit for our roles. ### 15. 95 % spot on for what my skills are **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bill G. | Senior Corporate Recruiter, Pharmaceuticals, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 27, 2018 **What do you like best about Plum?** You cannot cheat the system you are giving your thoughts without know what the manager is looking for in an ideal candidate **What do you dislike about Plum?** Nothing. In 26 years of HR it is far better than any other screen tool I have used. **Recommendations to others considering Plum:** We will be launching it globally in the next few months after testing it in Cleveland for over a year. **What problems is Plum solving and how is that benefiting you?** If allows data driven back up to help drive decisions for managers. Also if is a tool that can help break a tie between two similar candidates. ### 16. Easy to use, thorough **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Pharmaceuticals | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 16, 2018 **What do you like best about Plum?** I like that the survey allowed multiple users to establish the baseline. **What do you dislike about Plum?** The questions took a little longer than the survey implied at the start. **What problems is Plum solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were using it to filter prospective employees. We've also been able to show similarities in selling styles of current successful employees. ### 17. Useful tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 21, 2018 **What do you like best about Plum?** Does a good job of quantifying the how well a prospective employee's personality aligns with the team. Helps prevent hiring a skilled candidate whose personality clashes with the team. **What do you dislike about Plum?** I have hired some candidates who had scores in 60 & 70s, but they turned out to be a perfect fit. **What problems is Plum solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps us filter out candidates who may be qualified skill wise for the position, but are a bad personality fit, so we don't waste time interviewing those candidates. ### 18. Plum is a critical part of our hiring process. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 08, 2018 **What do you like best about Plum?** It helps get to the true nature of our applicants. **What do you dislike about Plum?** I would like to control the profile of the position - select which characteristics are important to that job without doing the selection part. **What problems is Plum solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps make better hires which altimately assists in reducing turnover costs. ### 19. Easy to use and highly valuable tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dan Lucas - CPA, A. | Managing Director, Financial Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2018 **What do you like best about Plum?** Very easy to use. Organized. Easy to teach others. Simple yet impactful. **What do you dislike about Plum?** Would love to see more people get "plum scores" and it becomes a type of job currency. **Recommendations to others considering Plum:** Do the free trial and use it a lot! **What problems is Plum solving and how is that benefiting you?** screening candidates, saving a lot of time, getting great interview questions, avoiding bad hires ### 20. Great Service **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2018 **What do you like best about Plum?** Love the problem solving section. Makes filtering candidates a snap. **What do you dislike about Plum?** Not so sure about the vagueness of the ratings **Recommendations to others considering Plum:** Use it before making a decision **What problems is Plum solving and how is that benefiting you?** hiring ### 21. Great product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Leigh H. | SVP, Revenue, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 02, 2017 **What do you like best about Plum?** provides key insights that allow for more in depth interviewing **What do you dislike about Plum?** More reporting and cohort analysis would be nice. **What problems is Plum solving and how is that benefiting you?** Can accurately and quickly identify someone's strengths and weaknesses. ## Plum Discussions - [How many candidates can I assess for a role?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/candidate-volume) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [What science is your assessment based on?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/science-validity) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [Does Plum provide “off-the-shelf” job profiles?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/job-profiles) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [What will I be able to do with the free trial?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/free-trial-3710b152-694e-4184-8374-3b24a6f87b35) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [How do I integrate Plum with my other HR and Talent applications?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/integrations-130ea63f-68a2-4a79-87ee-be8e4000b665) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [View Plum pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/plum/reviews?page=2§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-24+13%3A41%3A26+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=d430add6-eb5f-49c5-8483-326fd8dcbcff&secure%5Btoken%5D=f1787db386f5ba4de82b1665e9aa865a2713911adad2ceb8b7870a7d6380cfdb&format=llm_user) ## Plum Features **Visitor Behavior** - Monitoring - Targeting - Guided Selling **Platform Basics** - Interoperability - Performance - Reporting **Basics** - Reporting - Interoperability - Performance **Basics** - Reporting - Interoperability - Performance **Platform Functionality** - Sourcing and Candidate Identification - Job Posting - Applicant Tracking **Platform Basics** - Reporting - Interoperability - Performance **Generative AI** - AI Text Generation - AI Text Summarization **Generative AI** - AI Text Generation - AI Text Summarization **Agentic AI - SAP Store** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **Templates** - Library - Customization - Optimization **Platform Data** - Platform Search - Visualization **Additional Functionality** - Mobility - Dashboard **Additional Functionality** - Dashboard - Cloud - Mobility **Platform Content - Talent Assessment** - Candidate Screening - Content Library - Assessment - Portal - Emotional Intelligence - Logical Reasoning - Big Five - Psychometric **Platform Content ** - Employee Development - Career Development **Agentic AI - Recruiting Automation** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **Personalization** - Recommendation - Content - Cart Abandonment - Search - Personalization Engine - Product Recommendations - A/B Testing - Personalized Messaging **Platform Content** - Automation - Content Library **Content** - Automation - File Sharing **Content** - Automation - File Sharing **Platform Performance - Talent Assessment** - Uptime - Analytics **Platform Additional Functionality ** - Dashboard - Mobility - Portal - Integrations **Multichannel** - Web - Email - Mobile **Platform Additional Functionality** - Sourcing and Candidate Identification - Job Posting - Applicant Tracking **Recruiting and Onboarding** - Sourcing and Candidate Identification - Applicant Tracking **Platform Additional Functionality - Talent Assessment** - Mobility - Integrations **Platform** - Customization - Integration APIs - Internationalization - User, Role, and Access Management - Dashboards **Administration ** - Marketing Campaigns - Reports & Analytics - User Data - Integrations **Platform Basics - Talent Assessment** - Analytics - Interoperability - Automation **Agentic AI - E-Commerce Personalization** - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance **AI Capabilities - Talent Assessment** - AI Personalization - AI Predictive Insights - AI Scoring - Assessment Generation - AI Bias Detection ## Top Plum Alternatives - [The Predictive Index](https://www.g2.com/products/the-predictive-index/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (712 reviews) - [eSkill](https://www.g2.com/products/eskill-corporation-eskill/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (357 reviews) - [TestGorilla](https://www.g2.com/products/testgorilla/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (1,354 reviews)