Truffle is candidate screening software that combines resume screening, one-way video interviews, and talent assessments. All three on every plan. From $49/month, 7-day free trial, first Position Link live in 10 minutes. No demo request, no enterprise contract.
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HireVue is architected for enterprise hiring committees at 5,000+ employee companies hiring at global scale, with a quarterly implementation to match. Truffle ships the same three layers, resume, interview, assessment, in one Position Link. It's built for a team hiring 15 to 30 roles at a time, live before lunch.
HireVue is built for enterprise pipelines and the resume layer typically sits in a connected ATS. Truffle parses every resume against your intake criteria in one workflow, applies qualification questions, and gets you a live screening link in under 10 minutes instead of the multi-week implementations HireVue's tier expects.
Qualified · meets 4 of 4 must-havesHireVue's AI scoring works at enterprise scale, but candidates and journalists have flagged opacity in how the model decides. That memory goes back to the facial-analysis era HireVue retired after a 2019 EPIC complaint to the FTC. Truffle's AI Match traces every score back to the criteria you defined at intake. Reasoning is visible per candidate and per response, and Candidate Shorts explain why each 30-second clip was selected.
Candidate Short · 30 sec · citedHireVue sells assessment and AI-scoring modules as add-ons alongside its core video product, and third-party pricing breakdowns note these can double the entry contract. Truffle includes IPIP Big Five Personality, Situational Judgment, and Environment Fit assessments on every plan, with no add-on fee and no enterprise contract required.
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Front Desk Coordinator · 211 completed
AI Summary
Three years front desk at a busy physical therapy clinic, checking in 60 or more patients a day across two providers. Walked through a specific afternoon where two schedules collided and how she resequenced check-ins without anyone waiting past their slot. Personality reads calm and detail-oriented.
Why this match score
Cited interview moment
Tell us about a time the phones and the front desk line were both slammed.
“Two providers ran behind on the same afternoon and the phone didn't stop. I asked the line to hold for thirty seconds, triaged who was checking in versus who needed billing, and cleared the backup before the next block started.”
AI Summary
Retail lead for two years before applying, no prior front-desk software experience on the resume, but the interview was the strongest in the pool on warmth and pacing. Candidates like this often get filtered out by keyword matching alone.
Why this match score
Cited interview moment
How would you handle a visitor who's upset about a wait?
“I'd get eye contact first, not a form. Acknowledge the wait's real, tell them exactly what's happening next, and check back before they have to ask again.”
AI Summary
Quieter on camera, but the assessment is the strongest in the pool on situational judgment. Two years reception at a dental office. The kind of candidate a video-only tool tends to under-rank.
Why this match score
Cited interview moment
Describe your ideal front-of-house environment.
“Busy but organized. I like knowing the schedule cold so I can tell someone honestly how long they'll wait instead of guessing.”
AI Summary
Career switcher from food service. Resume light on office software. Interview presence upbeat and people-first. Assessment softer on independent prioritization under competing requests. Worth a screen if the pool thins.
Why this match score
Cited interview moment
What part of a front desk role are you most excited about?
“Being the first person someone talks to. I ran a lunch rush solo for a year. Same skill, calmer room.”
HireVue's own pricing page routes every visitor to a demo request and names an 'Essential package to the Premium package' with no numbers attached. Truffle posts the price on the page and starts the trial when you sign up.
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Public reports place typical HireVue contracts at $35K+ per year, averaging $49,855, before implementation.
HireVue prices video interviewing, assessments, and AI scoring as separable components. Third-party pricing breakdowns note that add-on modules like game-based assessments can double the entry contract. Truffle ships resume screening, one-way interviews, and all three assessment types in a single Position Link, with every feature on every plan regardless of tier.
HireVue's pricing page routes every visitor to a demo request, with no numbers shown until after a sales conversation. Truffle's price is on the page, the 7-day trial starts the moment you sign up with 30 credits and no credit card, and your first Position Link can be live in under 10 minutes.
Video-heavy screening tools built for enterprise volume share a known failure mode: reviewers run out of time to watch everything, so the video signal gets skipped. Candidate Shorts compile the three most-revealing 30-second moments from every interview with the reasoning attached, so you actually use the signal you collected instead of scrolling past it.
Truffle's sweet spot
Owner-operators (a founder, COO, GM, or franchisee) at a small business, roughly 5 to 100 people, with no in-house recruiter, plus small owner-run staffing and recruiting agencies. You hire the same handful of roles over and over, 15 to 30 open at a time, year-round, on roles where a resume alone doesn't tell you who's real. Self-serve buyers who want a price on the page and a working trial today.
Where they may be stronger
HireVue is built for Fortune 500 scale: teams at 5,000+ employee companies hiring at global scale, multi-stage assessments tied to validated job analysis, live video interviewing alongside one-way, structured interviewing across many business units, and SSO, SOC 2, and FedRAMP requirements that take a quarter of procurement to satisfy. If that's your context, HireVue is purpose-built for it. The demo is worth your time.
Data import
Most teams point their next role at a Truffle Position Link and let the HireVue pipeline finish on its own. Within two to three weeks the new workflow is the only one running. CSV bulk invite handles any HireVue candidates worth contacting again.
Timeline
Under 10 minutes from signup to live Position Link. The first ranked shortlist usually arrives within 48 hours of going live.
No friction
No annual contracts. No setup fee. 7-day free trial, 30 credits, no credit card. Cancel any time.
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Truffle starts from $49 per month, with annual billing two months free on Core and up. Pricing is listed on the page and every plan includes unlimited positions, unlimited team members, and one shared pool of credits (resume = 1, interview = 5), with unused credits rolling over on Core and up. HireVue is enterprise pricing on a quote, with public reports placing typical contracts at $35K+ per year, averaging $49,855. For a small business with no recruiter, Truffle is usually one or two orders of magnitude cheaper and always more transparent.
Yes. The 7-day free trial starts the second you sign up, with 30 credits and no credit card required. No demo needed. You build your first position, choose one-way video interviews, resume screening, or assessments (or all three), send the Position Link, and start reviewing candidates. Most teams set up their first role on their own in under 10 minutes.
Similarly in mechanism: candidates record responses on their own time, the same way HireVue's on-demand interviewing works. Truffle's one-way video interviews transcribe and score every response against your intake criteria. They also compile the three most-revealing moments into a 30-second Candidate Short, so you're not watching hours of recordings to build a shortlist. HireVue also offers live video interviewing as a separate mode. Truffle is one-way only, so if you specifically need live interviewing in the same platform, that's a real gap, not a marketing one.
No. Truffle's assessments are Personality (built on validated Big Five research), Situational Judgment Tests scored against your team's preferred approach, and Environment Fit assessments that surface whether a candidate's work-style preferences match the role. If your hiring is built around game-based or cognitive ability assessments tied to a validated job analysis, HireVue is purpose-built for that. If you want assessments that measure judgment and temperament alongside resume and interview signals, without a separate add-on fee, Truffle is the better fit for a self-serve team.
Truffle doesn't pull data directly out of HireVue. The cleanest migration is to point your next open role at a Truffle Position Link and let your existing HireVue pipeline finish on its own. Most teams are fully on Truffle within two to three weeks. Native and Zapier integrations cover most ATS handoffs from there.
Truffle's sweet spot is owner-operators at small businesses with no recruiter, and small owner-run recruiting agencies. Custom plans are available for higher volume and extended data retention. SSO/SAML is on the roadmap. If you need a Fortune 500 implementation with FedRAMP, deep validated assessments, and dedicated CS, HireVue is built for that scale, and the demo is worth your time.
We use Truffle to hire field sales reps. It helps us quickly spot who might be a great fit for us.
Maggie Rivers
Truffle is very easy to use and affordable. Applicants have also said they found it straightforward.
Rick Opton
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