• Send Us A Tip
  • Calling all Tech Writers
  • Advertise
Monday, June 16, 2025
  • Login
  • Register
TechStory
  • News
  • Crypto
  • Gadgets
  • Memes
  • Gaming
  • Cars
  • AI
  • Startups
  • Markets
  • How to
No Result
View All Result
  • News
  • Crypto
  • Gadgets
  • Memes
  • Gaming
  • Cars
  • AI
  • Startups
  • Markets
  • How to
No Result
View All Result
TechStory
No Result
View All Result
Home Startups

HackerRank – Getting The Right People To The Right Job !

by Dipti Gore
March 5, 2015
in Startups
Reading Time: 4 mins read
0
HackerRank – Getting The Right People To The Right Job !
TwitterWhatsappLinkedin

Main

You might also like

Bengaluru Rises to 14th Place in Global Startup Ecosystem Report 2025

Google Is Shutting Down Android Instant Apps Due to Low Usage

Vance Urges Musk to Rejoin Trump Camp After Explosive Public Fallout

[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n today’s world of technology where things are changing with 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. However, in spite of spending enormous amount of time and money, companies have found it challenging to recruit the right tech talent.

But what if there was a way to attract the right talent to the right job ?

says Mr. Harishankaran K, Co-founder of HackerRank. It is with this baseline that HackerRank has built a platform that has helped a large number of companies hire the right programming talent in an efficient yet cost-effective manner.

[box type=”shadow” align=”aligncenter” class=”” width=””]HackerRank is a platform where hackers come to solve interesting coding challenges and companies use the product to find out the best skilled aspirant. The product simplifies sourcing, screening and interviewing for companies, helping them source and screen 2-3 times more candidates and saving them thousands of hours of effort, and therefore thousands of dollars.[/box]

hari
Mr. Harishankaran K, Co-founder of HackerRank

The talent community in HackerRank has grown considerably over the last couple of years and currently has close to 1,000,000 active programmers. Companies can conduct CodeSprints (virtual hackathons) in order tap into this community and gain access to some of the best programming talent from around the world. These CodeSprints are usually centered around real-world challenges faced by the company, giving developers an idea of what they will be working on if they are hired. Companies also look at CodeSprints from an employer-branding perspective where they have the opportunity to portray their technology capability to the developer community. Developers also stand to benefit from this platform to enhance their coding ability by regularly solving challenges across the entire Computer Science domain., including niche areas like Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.

Winners_of_HackerRank_s_CodeSprint_India_2014
Awarding the winners at CodeSprints

The company focuses on removing the bottlenecks that make the tech hiring process so time consuming and at the same time increasing the quality of the outcomes.

Founded in 2009, HackerRank is the first Indian company to be selected for an incubation program by Y-combinator.Headquartered in the USA, the company has two main offerings: Hackerrank and HackerRank for Work. HackerRank is a platform where programmers come to solve interesting challenges and companies use the product to identify the best skilled aspirant. Hackerrank for Work is a set of tools that sit on the platform that helps recruiters optimize their tech recruiting and screen programmers in an efficient manner.By using HackerRank for Work, companies can administer coding challenges to applicants during the hiring process. These challenges are then evaluated automatically and ranks candidates based on performance. This gives recruites an objective metric that allows them to automate early stage candidate screening and save hundreds of hours in their recruitment process.

Team_heuristics_iiith
Team heuristics working on a coding challenge

HackerRank today 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.

As Part of HackerRank for Work, the company also offers CodePair, a real-time collaborative tool that makes phone screening a lot more efficient and tech-specific prior to final onsite interviews. CodePair helps you view, edit and execute code real-time in over 33 languages and includes features such as Code playback to see candidate’s thought process, , Audio/Video integration,etc. The company also recently launched DroidRank – for assessing android developers, and SudoRank – a tool for assessing systems engineers.

hackerrank1

The company was founded by Vivek Ravisankar and Harishankaran Karunanidhi. The two were classmates and studied CS together at the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli.In 2009 the two founded Interviewstreet. Although the original incarnation of Interviewstreet was not successful, the two learned enough to get an interview at Y Combinator and in 2011 became the first Indian startup to be admitted.

During our college days when I was trying to get recruited I gave my first test at 1 pm and was called for an interview round at 1am the following night. The huge amount of time taken for the process showed how flawed the process was. Vivek was the placement coordinator in our college and had seen the challenges of recruitment first hand. That is how we got our idea of developing the product.

says Hari. The company today has been hugely successful in creating one of the finest tools available in the recruitment industry and has customers in India, USA, Germany, Australia, Russia, China etc. Majority of their clients are based out of USA and India.

Virality  is extremely important factor when creating a product. When you create a product, share it with your users. If they get excited about it and share it with their friends, then you have created a good product ! And if your users do not get excited enough to share the product then you need to go back to the users, take their advice and rebuild product features accordingly. The most important thing is – Never Give Up !

says Hari. Today, Hackerrank is a team of 120 + members based out of the USA and India. A number of companies have reported 70% to 80% time savings by the use of HackerRank Product.

Although HackerRank is one of the best known products today in the market, the company is facing a lot of competition with a number of tech products trying to solve the recruitment puzzle. About his competition, Hari says,

There are plenty of challenges with tech recruitment that has to be solved and there is so much left to cover. Even with so many companies working in this space now, there are still a lot of areas that still remain untapped. As far as we are concerned, we know what we want to achieve and we know how to get there. Our roadmap is clear. Also we continuously focus on keeping our customers happy and have seen close to 100% customer retention. There is a lot of traction for our product because we are tackling a problem that needs to be solved, and we are doing this with a robust technology offering.

Tags: recruitmenttechnology
Tweet54SendShare15
Previous Post

Urban Ladder in talks to raise USD 60 million

Next Post

Housing.com And The Massive ‘Lookup’ Rebranding Campaign !

Dipti Gore

Recommended For You

Bengaluru Rises to 14th Place in Global Startup Ecosystem Report 2025

by Rounak Majumdar
June 15, 2025
0
Bengaluru Rises to 14th Place in Global Startup Ecosystem Report 2025

Bengaluru, India’s renowned tech capital, has made an impressive leap in the Global Startup Ecosystem Report (GSER) 2025, climbing seven spots to secure the 14th position worldwide. This...

Read more

Google Is Shutting Down Android Instant Apps Due to Low Usage

by Anochie Esther
June 14, 2025
0
Google

Google has officially confirmed that it will be sunsetting Android Instant Apps in December 2025, bringing an end to one of its more ambitious efforts to simplify app...

Read more

Vance Urges Musk to Rejoin Trump Camp After Explosive Public Fallout

by Anochie Esther
June 8, 2025
0
Vance

In a striking display of loyalty amid deepening Republican Party divisions, Vice President JD Vance publicly expressed regret over Elon Musk’s growing rift with President Donald Trump, characterizing...

Read more
Next Post
Housing.com And The Massive ‘Lookup’ Rebranding Campaign !

Housing.com And The Massive 'Lookup' Rebranding Campaign !

Please login to join discussion

Techstory

Tech and Business News from around the world. Follow along for latest in the world of Tech, AI, Crypto, EVs, Business Personalities and more.
reach us at [email protected]

Advertise With Us

Reach out at - [email protected]

BROWSE BY TAG

#Crypto #howto 2024 acquisition AI amazon Apple bitcoin Business China cryptocurrency e-commerce electric vehicles Elon Musk Ethereum facebook flipkart funding Gaming Google India Instagram Investment ios iPhone IPO Market Markets Meta Microsoft News NFT samsung Social Media SpaceX startup startups tech technology Tesla TikTok trend trending twitter US

© 2024 Techstory.in

No Result
View All Result
  • News
  • Crypto
  • Gadgets
  • Memes
  • Gaming
  • Cars
  • AI
  • Startups
  • Markets
  • How to

© 2024 Techstory.in

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password? Sign Up

Create New Account!

Fill the forms bellow to register

All fields are required. Log In

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In
Are you sure want to unlock this post?
Unlock left : 0
Are you sure want to cancel subscription?