HackerRank

“I predict that you're going to see a very different chart on both the slope of the hiring curve, as well as the demographic of the type of hires in the next Six-ish months.”

“Even in our own company, it's been way easier to get new grads and early talent just, like, be much more AI native than I have to, like, push really hard on the senior engineers and others.”

“So this is how we define the next-gen developer or the Tenex developer. You're strong in fundamentals of software engineering. You can use AI across all phases of SDLC. You have very good knowledge of AI concepts and you build with good taste and business acum…”

“And now where do we see companies Going is towards evaluating them on real-world tasks on code repositories. That's where, like, the world is going.”

“We also think the next evolution is going to be beyond code repositories because again, As much as IDE and AI system and code repository is like the home for developers, that's not the only place that they work in. It's always like the prod is down. Okay. So y…”

“The way we think about that is I mean, like the way we think about that and we define our hiring process also like that is there are two major work types of workflows in, in, in today's world that developers use. One is you're going to tell an agent or actuall…”

“The way we test for the usage of agent stuff is less about, can you prompt the agent to do the work, but more in terms of, hey, I've actually generated a bunch of PRs from Devin or Cloud Code or Gemini or like Codex or whatever. Can you go ahead and like revie…”

“Even internally, we're getting to, in our company, we're getting to a point of, it's not just like developers, but solution engineers, support people, being able to tag something like a dev in to say like, hey, there's a typo in this added message, go, go fix …”

“The way we define integrity is it's not about whether you use AI or not. It's about whether you follow the rules.”

“Chegg is the biggest offender, but I love Chegg as a company and things, I know they're going through hard times, but rooting for them. I hope they come back. Oh no. But Chegg is like right up there. There are other forums, StudyX. It doesn't really leak. We …”

“We have trained our own plagiarism model, which can detect whether you're using an external tool to write code or not with about, like, 85 to 90% precision.”

“Are companies sending assessments to junior versus senior? How many people they are interviewing? It's grown about 20 to 25% year over year relative to all of the other, other news, news items that you see on social media, where it's like, hey, declining, ever…”

“So from a rubric perspective, I would say new grads fundamentals and like much more hands-on coding with AI assistant for senior It is still fundamentals, but much more of code review and architecture and system design and other aspects of it.”

“Some of the known companies out of Morpheus are Practo, Common Floor, Hacker rank.”

“That actually took off a bit, but then after three months or so, the traffic was down to zero. Turns out you can only apply twice a year. So we didn't know what to do for the rest of the year. We actually applied to YC even with this idea. We got turned down.”

“In hindsight, it's great because I don't think we would have started the company if I had come here.”

“Actually we were the first Indian based company to get into Y Combinator.”

“We have a developer community that's over I think it's 3.4 million as of as of last week. That's slightly over 10% of the world's developer population who come to HackerRank to solve challenges, to practice their skills and get better.”

“Yeah, so we're, maybe it's about 26 to 28% in North America. About forty-ish percent plus in Asia, Asia Pacific. And then you're talking about 15 to 20% in the UK, and the remaining is the rest of the world.”

“One in every four developers learn to code before they learn to drive.”

“And also one of the things that was present in the survey was how you wanted to dive in deeper on the knowledge of that particular stack, at least for a startup because of course you have very low or pretty much no bandwidth to train somebody on the new stack …”

“And one of the things that we learned was how work-life balance Beats all of the different perks that people offer, whether that's free food or we have a ping-pong tournament every week or things along those lines.”

“Even though you had a CS degree, a lot of developers said they actually learned a lot from YouTube over books or sites like HackerRank.”

“I still think the proxy of your GPAs and companies exist at a lot of companies.”

“The other thing that I'm starting to see happen across a lot of different companies, and even Hackerank has incorporated this, is the business acumen the level of business acumen that you have as a developer. Usually it is, it's always developers or builders. …”

“The, and here is, I mean, all of these things are the nuances are super important, which is it doesn't matter the questions that the candidate asks, whether that's the right or the wrong thing for the business, you have to judge the quality of thinking. It cou…”

“The current ways of doing proxy on GPAs and degrees is bad, and you have to figure out your first 10 people almost from that untapped pool. I think it helps a lot in your drive and motivation for the long term. That's just my hypothesis, but I just have one da…”