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 […]

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 […]