March 2026: Reviews and Scorecards v1
Individual star ratings, structured recommendations, and team roll-up. The first version of structured team review in Truffle.
Star ratings in candidate review tools have a famous problem: when everyone shares one rating, the last person to click wins. We had that problem. As of March 19, we don’t.
What changed
Each reviewer rates individually. When you open a candidate, your stars are yours. They’re attributed to you, stored separately, and visible alongside everyone else’s once review is complete.
Recommendations are now a fixed choice. Three options:
- Move forward. You’d advance this candidate.
- Unsure. You want the team to weigh in.
- Pass. You’d not move them.
The free-text notes field is still there. But the headline call is a structured choice, which means the team roll-up actually adds up to something. You can see how many “Move forward” votes a candidate has at a glance, instead of squinting at five prose paragraphs.
Blind review, when you want it. Turn it on per role. Reviewers can’t see each other’s ratings or recommendations until everyone has weighed in. Once the gate lifts, the full team panel reveals at once. This kills the “first person to review anchors everyone else” problem that quietly distorts most panel reviews.
Reviews column on the candidate list. A new column on the candidate dashboard shows where the team is on each candidate (e.g. “2 of 3 reviews in”). The column is hidden on the Incomplete tab because there’s nothing to review yet. Small thing, removes a click.
Why this matters
If your hiring loop has more than two reviewers, you’ve felt the shared-rating bug whether or not you named it. One person clicks four stars, the next person clicks three, and you’re left looking at a three-star candidate with no idea who agreed with what. The point of a team review is to capture disagreement, not flatten it.
V1 captures it. V2 (later this year) will surface it.
Coming in April
Situational Judgment Test joins the assessment suite. Personality scoring goes to v2 with weighted tier logic. Environment Fit comes out of beta. And the brand identity and position-config screens get an overhaul.
