Author Archives: Neha Verma

As a standard part of our security review process, we will be changing the set of ciphers supported by our web servers in our AWS ELB cluster. The changes will go live on Feb 28th, 2018. The following cipher is being dropped: ELBSecurityPolicy-2016-08 We are adding a new cipher: ELBSecurityPolicy-TLS-1-2-2017-01 With this change we are […]

We recently improved our UI experience and also added a few new features to the invite page on HackerRank: Shared templates across the company Personalise emails by automatically adding candidate/recruiter name Re-inviting candidates to take a test   Shared templates across the company All users can now share templates created company wide. Click on the […]

We are conducting 60-minute training with live Q&A where we will review HackerRank for Work product, best practices in creating tests, inviting candidates to take the test, reviewing candidate reports and conducting paired programming interviews with Codepair. Please see the schedule here for training and sign up.

Starting today 10/16/17, HackerRank will not support fullscreen mode for candidates attempting the test using IE 11 or Safari. We recommend that whenever you send a invite for a test with fullscreen enabled, please add instructions for candidates to use latest version of Chrome, Firefox or Microsoft Edge to take the test. Note, we will […]

HackerRank for Work will not be available due to scheduled maintenance on December 25th, between 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm PT (see all timezones here). We’ll be performing the following updates during this time – Upgrade all questions using Swift 2.0 or an earlier version to Swift 3.0. Perform database updates. During this time you […]

We added a new feature that sends confirmation emails to test takers. After a candidate finishes a test, we will send them an email that confirms that their test results have been sent to the hiring company. The Confirmation Email feature is turned on by default for all of your company’s tests. But we have […]