HackerRank Developer Skills Platform Pros and Cons

I have been using hackerrank for the past 2 years, it has saved me a lot of time preparing interview and assessment questions. It has also helped in setting up right preliminary filters for our hiring pipeline.

It's easy to use and intuitive too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One area where it cam improve is the lack of certain bulk utilities, like archiving multiple tests. If there could be some bulk utilities to help admins manage tests, that would be great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

HackerRank is user friendly and easy to use even for people who aren't developers. Is has great integrations with our application tracking system (Greenhouse). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

For us, we have a lot of re-applying applicants who don't receive the test if they have previously taken it before which need to be sent manually or I need to create a new test. Additionally, we would like to enhance the way we use the plagiarism functionality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This platform is very easy to use. If you have predetermined questions by your company, it's easy to import them into the platform. There's also many language options to choose from, so candidates have access to any tool they'd like to use. I also enjoy that hackerrank has tools to detect and prevent cheating. As a candidate, you cannot copy/paste. Also once the interview is over, as an interviewer, you can see a timeline of all the changes a person did. Then you can see if anything suspicious happened. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One downside is that the platform makes it difficult to make changes to existing questions. Sometimes, there's little things wrong with the question I want to ask the candidate. I want to fix it, but I have to chat with the creator of the question even though we're part of the same organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. Creating Test setup is incredibly simple with different languages support and skillset.

2. Question availability with various complexity level makes it easier for setting up test for appropriate candidates experience level.

3. Helps evaluating large number of candidates with short period of time for required skill set and knowledge.

4. Hacker Rank support team is helping with appropriate response for any skill set question availability.

5. Plagiarism detection is a very good feature for selecting appropriate candidate.

6. Test result report and candidate/question insights are very helpful feature for optimizing the test.

7. Overall, Hacker Rank helps recruitment process streamlined and making it faster for onboarding suitable candidates Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. Availability of question set for certain skill set is limited (like iOS skills)

2. MCQ test is quicker way for evaluating internal resources. So having more number of MCQ question set would help for setting up test with random question set presentation.

3. Coding Test might also include some easiest complexity test for entry level candidates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We need a variety of coding problems and questions for each of our engineering levels and skill personas. HackerRank provides a library of coding problems that we can easily create offline exams to our candidates. We also use HackerRank whiteboarding and collaboration platform during interviews so that we can observe candidates' coding and problem-solving skills in a live session. HackerRank integrates well with our HR recruiting tools making it easy for us to leave feedback and access the interview results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We find root-cause analysis and debugging assessments difficult using HackerRank. Refactoring and optimizing code is a critical skill that we look for and we don't see many problems in the area of design patterns, architecture, and code performance. We wish we could use examination problems (i.e. coding, multiple choice) for live whiteboarding interviews (populate the whiteboard interview template with HackerRank library of problems) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We use HackerRank for high-volume technical roles to test whether candidates can code. Certified Assessments are easy to create and have leak protection on questions, reducing the manual work for engineers to create questions and grade assessments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Analytics and benchmarks are lacking - it is a manual process to determine what cutoff scores should be.

We have noticed discrepancies in how candidates from underrepresented backgrounds perform; it would be nice for HackerRank to do more extensive testing to ensure a fair process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It reduces the manual screening of candidates through multiple rounds of interviews and gives the best qualified ones. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One of the area of improvement can be to assign the Hiring manager for certain tests and they also receive the test results for the candidates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I absolutely love using HackerRank - it's been such a smooth experience both for us and our candidates. The platform is really well organized, and we've never had any issues with candidate logins or admin tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

No issues with the platform at this time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hiring Managers and recruiters seem to be able to get up to speed quickly on setting up assessments and interviews. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing comes to mind at the moment. I need more time to explore it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

HackerRank provides a vast library of coding challenges across various domains with unit tests. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Success in passing HackerRank does not always translate into the skills required on a day-to-day basic working within a larger codebase with other engineers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.