Introducing DbRank: Assessing SQL made easy

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 […]

Introducing Insights for Tests/Questions

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 […]

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 […]

Faster and better Library

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 […]

Revamped Test Invitation Workflow

Inviting candidates to take a test is one of the most common activities for a recruiter on our site. Today we are launching a fully revamped test invite workflow to make this repetitive process more efficient for our users. The new interface is shown in the screenshot below. The first thing you would notice is the […]

Change to HackerRank’s email address

We are rolling out a change to the domain from which we send out transactional email. Once this change is fully rolled out, all emails from us will originate from support@hackerrankforwork.com. We have started this rollout and this activity should be completed by the end of month (28th Feb, 2015). To be doubly sure that our emails never […]

Adding code stubs made easier

Time and again we have received feedback from candidates that it is a distraction to figure out how to parse program input. It is particularly irksome for candidates who choose languages like Javascript, where knowing how to read console input is virtually never a real world requirement. We, as well as our customers, want candidates […]