HackerRank AI Hiring & Developer Skills Platform

HackerRank is the brand of Interviewstreet, Inc., which began in July 2009 as InterviewStreet and became HackerRank around 2012, with offices in the US, London and Bangalore. It helps companies hire and assess software engineers on demonstrated skills rather than pedigree, and reports 2,500 customers and a community of more than 26 million developers.

Screen runs certified, role-based coding and project assessments with AI-powered plagiarism detection and integrity monitoring; Interview supports live pair programming; Chakra is an agentic AI interviewer that poses real-world problems, runs coding tasks and evaluates judgment and AI fluency. Newer assessments measure how candidates plan, build and review code with an AI assistant in production-style repositories. Rubric-based scoring is audited for bias, and an MCP server lets AI tools query HackerRank data.

• Screen: certified role-based coding, project and repository assessments.
• Interview: live pair-programming interviews on the same task.
• Chakra AI interviewer: agentic interviews with in-line coding, video playback and Workday integration.
• AI fluency evaluation: Plan Mode and IDE signals show how candidates use AI assistants.
• Integrity monitoring: plagiarism detection, multiple-face and device alerts, desktop app enforcement.
• MCP and APIs: AI tools and ATS workflows can query reports and candidate data.

A Vietnamese software outsourcing firm can run standardised coding tests for campus and experienced hiring. A bank's technology division can use the AI interviewer to pre-screen backend candidates. An IT training school can benchmark graduates against employer-grade assessments.

Lets engineering teams screen large applicant pools objectively before spending interviewer time. Measures how candidates work with AI, which is now part of real engineering work. Protects assessment integrity with plagiarism detection, proctoring and session controls. Offers a large library of real-world questions, with 159 repository tasks and 100 coding questions added in July 2026 alone.

AI coding assistants are changing what engineering skill means, and employers now need to assess how candidates work with AI while blocking AI-assisted cheating. Vietnam's large software outsourcing and product sector hires thousands of engineers a year, often for foreign clients, and needs standardised, defensible technical assessments.

Interviewstreet, Inc. dba HackerRank; terms governed by California law. Founded July 2009 by Vivek and Hari; offices in the US, London and Bangalore. Raised a USD 60M Series D in 2022 led by Susquehanna Growth Equity, after rounds led by Khosla Ventures, Indeed and JMI Equity. SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and GDPR.