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HackerRank: Junior developer assessments and interviews are up 20-25% year-over-year
“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…”
Ravisankar: Tech hiring slope and junior demographics will rebound in six months
“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.”
Ravisankar defines the next-gen 10x developer by fundamentals, AI, and taste
“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…”
HackerRank evaluates candidates on reviewing AI-generated PRs, not prompt engineering
“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…”
Ravisankar: Future coding interviews will test production debugging and logs
“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…”
Ravisankar: HackerRank finds new grads adopt AI much faster than seniors
“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.”
HackerRank lets non-engineers assign low-priority tasks directly to AI agents
“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 …”
Ravisankar: Chegg is the top assessment leak source, LeetCode not in top five
“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 …”
HackerRank trained model detecting external coding tools with 85-90% precision
“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.”
Ravisankar: Developer hiring is shifting to real-world codebase assessments
“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.”
Ravisankar: Technical interview integrity is about following rules, not avoiding AI
“The way we define integrity is it's not about whether you use AI or not. It's about whether you follow the rules.”
Ravisankar: Junior interviews test AI copilot coding; senior interviews test architecture
“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.”
Ravisankar: AI development has split into asynchronous agents and IDE copilots
“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…”