Our customers tell us that they often wish each Candidate being assessed is given a different Test. The idea is to have a pool of questions of a similar kind, and have the system select a subset of questions to present to each Candidate. HackerRank for Work has long supported shuffling of Questions in a Test. In this model all candidates […]
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Unified login across CodePair and HackerRank for Work
As a HackerRank for Work user, if you start a CodePair interview while already logged in to your HackerRank for Work account, it is reasonable for you to expect that you don’t have to log in a second time. Unfortunately that is not how it was. With a change that we are releasing today your HackerRank […]
Scheduled Maintenance on Oct 21, 2015
HackerRank for Work will be down for scheduled maintenance on Oct 21 from 01:30 AM – 04.30 AM PDT. We’ll be performing some system enhancements that’ll make your user experience even better (and faster) than it already is. During this time no one will be able to access the HackerRank platform. Frequently Asked Questions How […]
Internal Notes comes to all Question Types
Earlier this year we implemented a feature that allowed Coding challenge creators to add internal notes. The feature has been a hit with our customers, and many requested us to extend it to other question types. So here it is. From now on you will be able write internal Notes for all questions, just below the […]
SSL Cipher Change Notification
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 Thursday, 18 June 2015 at 12:00 Hrs UTC The following ciphers are being dropped: DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA DHE-DSS-AES128-SHA With this change we are effectively enabling the […]
Test Report Emails – Change of Source Email Address
When one of your candidates completes a test, some key details are sent over to you as an email. The email is sent to the recruiter who invited the candidate and any one else you have explicitly configured in the Test’s Advanced Settings. The email used to be sent from reports@interviewstreet.com. As part of an […]
SSL Cipher Change Notification
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 Tuesday, 26 May 2015 at 12:00 Hrs UTC The following ciphers are being dropped: ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA RC4-SHA The following cipher is added: DES-CBC3-SHA With […]
Candidate and Tests API v1 Sunset Notice
Two of our oldest APIs – The Recruit Candidate API and Recruit Test API – are being deprecated with immediate effect and they will be completely shutdown on 30 April 2015. The older APIs are replaced with a much improved v2 of the HackerRank for Work API, documented here: http://apidocs.hackerrank.com/hr4wv2 Most of the changes are backward compatible and many users […]
Scheduled maintenance update
We are having a scheduled maintenance on 19 March 2015 from 09:30 UTC to 12:30 UTC. During this time the following pages will not be accessible: The test report timeline view The consolidated candidate activity view Other than the above mentioned pages you will be able to invite and review candidates without interruption. Candidates attempting tests will not […]
Unified Candidate Timeline
If you are a recruiter using HackerRank for Work who wanted to pull together a comprehensive view of all Test and CodePair activity of a particular candidate, you would have realised that is not possible. Well, till today! We are happy to announce the launch of a simple but exciting feature that unifies all of your interaction with candidates. We […]