Author Archives: Arpit Maheshwari

As part of a series of changes to improve the phone interview experience, our latest update allows you to choose the font size of the code written by you or the candidate during a CodePair interview. This option is available from the settings menu just like the other customization options of selecting the editor mode, turning on/off intellisense. 

Earlier today, we rolled out an upgraded failover feature for CodePair. This allows a CodePair interview to continue on a secondary server if for some reason the primary server goes down. Even though our data center already guarantees 99.95% uptime, we believe it’s important to get that value as close to 100% as we possibly […]

The test invitation email has been improved to provide a better experience to the candidates. The email will contain a “Start Test” button (see image below) instead of candidate email and password. Clicking on this button will take the candidate to a test login page which will be authenticated for that specific candidate and they will […]

We’ve rolled out a change to improve the state management of CodePair interviews. Before this change, if an interviewer did not click the “End” button at the end of an interview (see image below), that interview continued to be listed in the “In Progress” field of “Reports” and was accessible by the candidate, indefinitely.   The change ensures that […]

CodePair helps you get the best out of technical phone interviews. Besides the ability to see the candidates code real-time, one of the things that makes phone interviews more effective is to see candidates while talking to them. We’re excited to share 2 significant improvements to the video chat experience on CodePair: Video call notifications: […]

The code editor in CodePair has been improved to help the interviewees feel at home. We strongly believe that CodePair must let the candidates remain focused on the interview questions and they shouldn’t have to spend time adjusting to the platform. Two of our recent changes will help candidates significantly: Auto-complete: Intellisense, or suggestions for […]

We’re very excited to announce the beta release of Company Insights, one of HackerRank for Work’s most anticipated new features. With Insights, we’ll show you all the key data on your HackerRank for Work usage so that you can make your recruitment process truly data-driven. Here are just a few of the ways that Insights […]

We’re very excited to announce the launch of DbRank, our latest automated platform for assessing SQL skills. It simplifies your hiring for a variety of database-related roles like Data Analysts, Business Analysts, Data Scientists, Application Developers and many more. The platform supports four of the most commonly used databases: Oracle, MS SQL server, DB2 and […]

Today, we’re beginning to roll out Insights for Tests/Questions on HackerRank for Work to help you understand how your tests and questions are performing.   Thousands of companies who’re looking for technical talent use HackerRank Tests to screen candidates effectively and make their recruitment process more streamlined and cost effective. Now for the first time […]

One of the building blocks of HackerRank for Work is the Question Library: a collection of all the questions accessible to a user. These questions are used in Tests and CodePair (our tool for technical phone interviews). We’ve just released a number of improvements to the Question Library interface to help make it easier for users to browse available questions, add […]