Dipti Gore
HackerRank’s primary thought leadership event witnessed influential speakers from Flipkart, InMobi, GE, Juniper, and Time Inc.
Bangalore: April 16, 2015: HackerRank, a technical talent community for developers to hone their skills and for companies to hire great tech talent, today conducted their first India edition of “Re-engineer” along with their customers at Royal Orchid, Bangalore. During the event, HackerRank announced their latest offering: HackerRank Insights designed to help make technical recruitment completely data-driven, standardized, and efficient. This new offering will empower companies to measure performance of their recruiters, analyze which tests and questions are the best predictors of success, and benchmark their key recruitment metrics in comparison to the industry average.
After four successful editions in the US, Re-engineer was conducted for the first time ever in India witnessing a key note from Mr. Mekin Maheshwari, CHRO of Flipkart. The event, focused on sharing practices of technical recruiting through insider stories of industry professionals, was a huge success.
A panel discussion was hosted by Sriram Karra, Director – Product at HackerRank on the topic, “Data is the New Recruiting “. During the panel discussion industry experts from InMobi, GE, Juniper, and Time Inc, shared their insights about the need of technical recruitment to be made easy and how important it is for companies to make their technology hiring process data-driven. Companies need to use insights derived from pure data in order to optimize their tech hiring process further.
During the event, Mr. Harishankaran K, Co-founder of HackerRank said, “In today’s world of technology where things are changing in the blink of an eye, there is undoubtedly an inexhaustible demand for programmers who can develop cutting edge technology products. In order to remain competitive and develop products fast, it is extremely important that companies hire the right talent. With Re-engineer, we believe that a lot more people could understand the advantages of our platform to hire best skilled coders through insights gained from industry experts. It’s also fantastic to hear from our customers that HackerRank has helped them find the best skilled people for their organizations”.
The company’s mission is to build a meritocratic platform that makes the world flat – where the only thing that matters is your actual objectively-measured skill and not which school you went to, the companies you’ve been at, or any other factor for that matter. The company already has over 1,000 paying customers on its HackerRank for Work platform and has been experiencing 100%+ quarter over quarter growth, rapidly becoming the go to solution of tech recruiters in Technology, Financial services, retail, and other sectors. HackerRank is enabling the world to move faster by helping companies hire better through a robust platform and all the necessary tools to ensure efficient tech recruiting.
Founded in 2009, HackerRank is a platform where programmers come to solve interesting challenges and companies use the product to identify the best skilled aspirant. By using the HackerRank for Work, companies administer coding challenges to applicants during the hiring process and gain an objective metric that allow recruiters to automate early stage candidate screening and save hundreds of hours in their recruitment process. Formerly known as InterviewStreet, HackerRank was also the first Indian company to be selected for an incubation program by Y-combinator. The company has over 1,000 paying customers on its HackerRank for Work platform and has been experiencing 100%+ quarter over quarter growth, rapidly becoming the go to solution of tech recruiters in Technology, Financial services, retail, and other sectors.