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What is HackerRank?

HackerRank is a technology hiring platform from the company of the same name headquartered in Mountain View, for assessing developer skills for over 2500 companies around the world. HackerRank helps companies hire skilled developers and innovate faster by enabling tech recruiters and hiring managers to objectively evaluate talent at every stage of the recruiting process.

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Very good platform for practice coding and for hiring talent

Incentivized
Krishan KashyapView profile
SSE in Engineering at Appinventiv (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Hackerrank is an excellent platform for coding practice. And the platform also provides the facility to hire people using coding challenges. So the platform is used to arrange coding challenges for people who want to join the organization, It's used to screen people in the first round of the hiring process.

Pros

  • Providing wide rages of coding problems
  • Great interface
  • IDE to execute code in many programming languages

Cons

  • The can provide project based challenges
  • detailed performance feedback to users
  • Interactive mock interviews

Most Important Features

  • Organizations can create customized coding challenges
  • Skill Assessment and Hiring Tools
  • Remote Hiring

Return on Investment

  • Improved Technical Hiring Efficiency
  • Reduced Onboarding Time

Other Software Used

AWS Lambda, Google Authenticator, Figma

A good place to start

Incentivized
Dhruv Goragandhi
Student/ Instructional Assistant in Information Technology at Penn State University (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It helps in learning new concepts as well as provides a good motivation to do so by making it more like a challenge. They are also industry recognized and hence help give credibility to the users that use the website. They also have interview helping tools which are not very common.

Pros

  • Helps learn from basics
  • Makes it competitive
  • Provides certificates

Cons

  • Increase the content
  • Introduce a job portal
  • Have live classes

Most Important Features

  • Basics
  • Popular coding languages
  • Competitions help know where you stand

Return on Investment

  • Made it easier to learn new languages
  • Certifications can be put in a resume
  • Made it easier to teach others

Alternatives Considered

HackerOne and LinkedIn Learning (Lynda.com)

Other Software Used

HackerOne, LinkedIn Learning (Lynda.com), Practice Labs

HackerRank from a software engineering interns view

Incentivized
Ryan DalyView profile
Software Engineering Intern in Engineering at Arista Networks (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

HackerRank is used by my organization to conduct coding tests in order to screen candidates before offering them an interview.

Pros

  • Easy to Understand
  • Code Autocomplete
  • Customizable

Cons

  • Sometimes gives away the name of the problem before starting the exam

Most Important Features

  • Easy to use and understand by candidates
  • Can choose what questions to test candidates with
  • Easy straightforward scoring method

Return on Investment

  • Has increased our ability to consider more candidates as we can send many potential candidates a first round HackerRank before moving on to interviews

Alternatives Considered

CodeSignal

Other Software Used

CodeSignal, Docker, Flutter, by Google

"Shortlisting candidates is now super-easy"

Devang SharmaView profile
Google Cloud Developer in Engineering at Google (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

"Hackerrank is a Wonderful Platform, We have been using it for over 2 Years. We regularly use it at Google to host our Hiring Contests. The Detailed Analytics received after the Test helps us a lot to shortlist candidates for further stages. In addition, there are multiple options to Host a Test for various technical skills across different Tech Stacks."

Pros

  • The Detailed Analytics received after the Test helps us a lot to shortlist candidates for further stages.
  • There are multiple options to Host a Test for various technical skills across different Tech Stacks.
  • Shortlist Candidates based upon its AI Recommendation.

Cons

  • More Pool of Questions to select from.
  • More End to End Project Assignments.
  • Insights on Time Taken By Candidates.

Most Important Features

  • Detailed Analytics received after the Test helps us a lot to shortlist candidates for further stages.
  • There are multiple options to Host a Test for various technical skills across different Tech Stacks.
  • Shortlist Candidates based upon its AI Recommendation.

Return on Investment

  • 63% Improvement over streamlined Hiring.
  • More Suitable Candidates.
  • Shortlisting time saved by over 57%.

Alternatives Considered

CodeSignal

Other Software Used

CodeSignal, HackerEarth Assessments, Codility

HackerRank review by a developer

Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology (1-10 employees employees)

Pros

  • Practicing programming using programming language of your choice
  • Competitive programming with ranking, weekly/monthly challenges
  • Certificates to prove & verify using practical problem solving skills of a developer

Cons

  • Some problems are very difficult to understand, more explanation or mathematical tips should be provided
  • Doesn't provide training for all programming languages, like C#
  • Certifications currently lack functionality of reattempting exam

Most Important Features

  • Programming languages support
  • Practicing to code
  • Getting certifications

Return on Investment

  • Na
  • Na
  • Na

Alternatives Considered

HackerEarth Assessments

Other Software Used

Visual Studio IDE, Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Microsoft Azure

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