CANDIDATE EXPERIENCE

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Talent experience, measured and optimized.

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PRICING

Custom (contact for demo, Pro Edition available for smaller teams)

CATEGORY

CANDIDATE EXPERIENCE

AT A GLANCE

Talent experience platform that automatically collects candidate, hiring manager, and employee feedback across the full hiring and post-hire journey.

What is Survale

Survale is a feedback engine for TA and people teams. It triggers automated surveys at every touchpoint of the hiring process (application, interview, offer, onboarding, ongoing) and pulls the responses into one dashboard. It integrates with most major ATSs and HRMS platforms, and is also the home of the CandE awards, the long-running candidate experience benchmark research. Designed for HR teams who want to manage candidate experience as a measurable program rather than a vague aspiration.

Who it's for

Yes, if…

  • You're a US mid-market or scaleup HR team that wants to measure candidate experience continuously, not annually

  • You're on a major ATS (Workday, Greenhouse, iCIMS) and want survey triggers to fit your existing workflow

  • You're interested in industry benchmarking and the CandE research program

  • You want one feedback platform for candidates, hiring managers, and employees rather than three separate tools

No, if…

  • You're a very small SMB (under 20 people) where a Google Form would do the job for now

  • You're not currently measuring candidate experience and aren't sure you'll act on the data, the value comes from closing the loop

  • You only want one specific use case (e.g. just exit surveys), more focused tools may fit better at lower cost

Our take

Survale is the most serious candidate experience tool in the market for teams that take CX as a measurable program. The CandE benchmark connection is the trust signal, this is the platform behind the long-running industry research, not a feature bolted onto a generic survey tool. If you're a US SMB or mid-market HR team that wants to professionalize candidate experience measurement (and probably win a CandE award along the way), Survale is the obvious choice. Pair it with structured interviews in Oryx and you've got a closed loop: better interviews, better feedback, better hires.

Pros & cons

What works

  • Surveys fire automatically at every stage of the candidate journey, so you're getting real-time feedback instead of running ad-hoc end-of-year surveys

  • Integrates with the major ATSs (Workday, Greenhouse, iCIMS, SmartRecruiters, Jobvite) and HRMS platforms, so triggers fit your existing workflow

  • AI analysis and comment mining surface themes from open-ended responses without you reading every single one

  • Hosts the CandE awards and benchmark research, so you're comparing your scores against industry data, not guessing

  • Covers candidate, hiring manager, and employee experience in one platform, useful if you want a single feedback infrastructure

What to watch

  • Pricing is custom and aimed at mid-market and enterprise teams, very small SMBs may find the Pro Edition still feels heavyweight

  • The platform's breadth means setup takes more thought, you'll want to plan your survey points and response routing before going live

  • More polish on the analytics than on the survey-taking UX, so candidate-facing survey design needs your attention to feel branded and friendly

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