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Ravisankar: Top '10x' developers are distinguished by strong business acumen
“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. …”
Ravisankar: Startups should recruit their first ten engineers from untapped talent pools
“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…”
Ravisankar: Startups need stack-specific developers while big firms hire generalists
“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 …”
Ravisankar: Evaluate candidates on thinking framework, not business conclusions
“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…”
Ravisankar: Work-life balance beats office perks in developer appeal
“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.”
Ravisankar: Surveyed CS graduates report learning significantly from YouTube
“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.”
Ravisankar: Many companies still use GPAs as hiring proxies
“I still think the proxy of your GPAs and companies exist at a lot of companies.”
Ravisankar: HackerRank Was First Indian-Based Company in Y Combinator
“Actually we were the first Indian based company to get into Y Combinator.”
Ravisankar: One in four developers learned to code before driving
“One in every four developers learn to code before they learn to drive.”
Ravisankar: HackerRank wouldn't exist if US grad schools accepted him
“In hindsight, it's great because I don't think we would have started the company if I had come here.”
Ravisankar: HackerRank has 3.4M developers, over 10% of global total
“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.”
Ravisankar: US grad school review pivot led to second YC rejection
“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.”