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HackerEarth Assessments

Score7.1 out of 10

28 Reviews and Ratings

What is HackerEarth Assessments?

HackerEarth Assessments allow you to create custom coding assessments to test technical skills to effectively recruit for technical roles. The vendor states that their AI-powered proctoring ensures accurate results that truly speak to the candidates' skills.

Perfect Platform For Hiring Great Engineers

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Hiring the right candidates is always very tough and dependent on an accurate assessment of the candidate for the required skills. HackerEarth Assessments helps us create specific tests that we can use to evaluate the potential candidates to hire the right fit for our team.

Pros

  • The platform is very well designed and the overall experience is very nicely devised, so in a small span of time of the interview also the candidates can easily identify all the necessary platform utilities and give the test in a given time.
  • Wide range of questionnaires from the system itself, so it makes the job of the interviewer very easy to pick any question for the test as well.
  • Simple onboarding and an easy learning curve make it easy for organisations to quickly set up an efficient hiring process.
  • The pricing is also very well thought out and doesn't make life tough for companies.

Cons

  • The Pricing is good for mid-size companies, but for a growing startup, it can be a bit high. Maybe they can introduce startup-friendly plans.
  • The Library of the questionnaire can be improved and updated as its long time since it has been revisited.

Most Important Features

  • Creating a pipeline for hiring people.
  • Providing the candidates problems to work on and observe.
  • Assessing the candidates based on the tests.
  • Having a track of how the overall process is working out for the organisation.

Return on Investment

  • It has enabled us to hire the right people for our company which has enabled us to create more value for our customers so definitely it had a positive impact on our business value objectives.

Alternatives Considered

CodeSignal, Codility and HackerRank

Other Software Used

HackerRank, DigitalOcean Droplets, Slack

A Good Assessment Platform

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

HackerEarth is the technical assessment platform that we use to hire new employees. The HackerEarth assessments are given as part of the interview process. We use HackerEarth to assess the aptitude in programming skills from the HackerEarth assessment score. As the score is generated on aspects such as the candidate's problem-solving ability and speed, the HackerEarth assessment serves as a good measure to judge a candidate before that person is called for the next round of interviews.

Pros

  • Option of proctored/unproctored assessment.
  • Uniform structure of assessment.
  • Variety of problem sets to choose from.

Cons

  • Code editor should be more responsive for auto suggestions.
  • Practice environment should be located in such a way that it should be found easily.
  • A transparent and publicly available pricing.

Most Important Features

  • Question pool.
  • Data structure and algorithm-based assessment.
  • Report generation.

Return on Investment

  • 10 working hours saved weekly which used to be spent on interviews.
  • Approximately 3 employees' worth of manpower is saved.
  • The benefit of allowing assessment in multiple languages allowed the interviewee to concentrate on evaluation on the basis of underlying concepts.

Alternatives Considered

HackerRank

Other Software Used

HackerRank, Codility, CoderPad

Great assessment tool for Coders.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using this online platform to hire new talent for our company. Using this product you can hire talent from multiple locations without tedious or repetitive processes, in my organization we are using this product only for hiring purposes. The product is very economical and it has a broad reach.

Pros

  • we can design assessment tests using almost all programming languages.
  • We can create customized test cases for a given assessment test.
  • It is very economical to our organization.

Cons

  • The analysis and report can be more concise.
  • Sometimes users have reported IDEs not working so there is room for improvement.
  • All other things are fine.

Most Important Features

  • It has a broad reach, and most of the candidates are familiar with its interface.
  • It is very economical for the employer.
  • Interactive interface.

Return on Investment

  • It has a broad reach so we can reach out to the candidates from different locations.
  • The platform is very economical.
  • We have hired many employees using this platform.

Alternatives Considered

HackerRank

Other Software Used

HackerRank, Google Analytics, Firebase

HackerEath for SWE Hiring

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

This was mainly used used in the hiring/screening process.

Engineers submit their applications to a job listing, HR would select who we would like to screen, they receive an assessment.

Based on the performance of the assessment, they would move on to live assessments.

The HackerEarth database of assessments would sometimes be used to pick the live assessment.

Pros

  • Filters out bad engineers
  • Validates resume claims
  • Speeds hiring

Cons

  • Better diagnostics
  • More up to date repository
  • Better IDE

Most Important Features

  • Speed of hiring
  • Quality of hiring

Return on Investment

  • Management overhead of the portal

Alternatives Considered

HackerRank

Other Software Used

HackerRank

Great product and platform for coding assessments

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

HackerEarth Assessments provides a easy to understand and use platform for coding assessments. This helps the team immensely in filtering out candidates based on their coding skills before the interview process. Configuring the test is also straightforward with options to select the type of test based on the role a candidate is being tested for.

Pros

  • Easy to configure and use
  • Lots of languages to choose from
  • Wide range of questions which can test any particular skill as required of a candidate

Cons

  • Documentation for setting up the exam
  • Better user interface

Most Important Features

  • Easy filtering process among candidates
  • Good tech support available when needed
  • Great monitoring options

Return on Investment

  • Helps in understanding the coding skills of a candidate before an interview
  • We don't have to explicitly set up a filtering round for the candidates
  • Extremely User friendly

Alternatives Considered

CodeSignal and HackerRank

Other Software Used

HackerRank, CodeSignal