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 […]
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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 […]
Authenticated test links in invitation emails
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 […]
Improved interview state management (CodePair)
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 […]
Improved video chat in CodePair
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: […]
CodePair Editor Improvements
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 […]
Introducing Company Insights: Make hiring data-driven
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 […]
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 […]