Ravisankar: Future coding interviews will test production debugging and logs
Vivek Ravisankar · ⚡️ The State of AI Engineer Hiring: Cheating, AI Adoption,Junior Devs — Vivek Ravisankar, HackerRank · Nov 8, 2025 · at 14:21
Vivek Ravisankar, CEO of HackerRank, discusses the future of developer hiring assessments beyond IDE-based tasks.
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“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 you go to Sentry, you look at logs, you look at a bunch of things, then you go back to your IDE, you try to fix. So the next evolution of interview might be, might even be beyond just like a code repository set of tasks with an IDE.”
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