HackerRank

About HackerRank

HackerRank is an American HR-technology company that develops and markets a developer-skills assessment and interview platform used by employers to screen, assess, and interview technical candidates. The company also operates a large public community of developers who use coding challenges, contests, and certifications on hackerrank.com to practice and benchmark their skills. The company was founded in 2009 by Vivek Ravisankar and Hari Karunanidhi, both alumni of NIT Trichy, with Vinayak Nair also among the early team. Originally known as InterviewStreet, the company went through Y Combinator in 2011 and rebranded to HackerRank shortly after. Vivek Ravisankar is co-founder and chief executive officer. HackerRank is headquartered in Mountain View, California, with significant engineering, product, and customer-success operations in Bengaluru, India. The platform is used by thousands of employers worldwide, including a large share of the Fortune 500, for screening and interviewing software-engineering candidates. Customers conduct millions of technical assessments and remote interviews on the platform each year. The product portfolio includes HackerRank Screen for online assessments, HackerRank Interview (formerly CodePair) for live coding interviews, and HackerRank Plagiarism Detection. The community side of the platform offers domain-specific challenges, contests, certifications, and skill-verification programmes used by individual developers. Indian fresher and early-career hiring at HackerRank typically targets software-engineering, machine-learning, product, design, customer-success, and content-engineering roles, with applications routed through hackerrank.com/careers.

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