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The job of a developer is becoming an orchestrator of AI agents. HackerRank is helping 2500+ companies change how they hire for this new world. We've played a critical role in deve…

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I'm Vivek, co-founder/CEO of HackerRank (YC S11); You may know us as a hiring tool for developers/companies. Over the years, we have built up deep expertise in generating programmi…

We just published our 2025 Developer Skills Report. It combines survey responses from over 13,000 developers worldwide with platform data from millions of coding assessments on Hac…

We help companies hire & upskill developers. A customer recently asked: What % of HackerRank problems can LLMs solve? That got us thinking—how should hiring evolve when AI can tran…

That's awesome. I'm sorry, I couldn't find your email / contact info from your profile. Any chance you can email me: vivek [at] hackerrank?

Before you replace, can I show you how the LLM integration works on HackerRank?

What would a solution like that look?

We already have this but perhaps we should make it more prominent

Thank you for logging back in! I’d say the biggest differentiator among the ones you have mentioned is our connect to 3000+ companies who use our enterprise platform to screen & in…

Thanks for the transparency. We will continue to get better at making it easy to get started

Super good feedback. It’s on top of our list to move to more real-world set up like how you are mentioning

I'm the founder/CEO of HackerRank and started this ~12 years ago with the mission of enabling hiring to happen with skills vs pedigree. There's still a long way to go in making thi…

Assuming developers as a profession still exists, what do you think is the future of technical interviews given the increasing ability of LLMs to solve clear bounded problems (leet…

There’s no universal agreed upon definition for a startup but if at all you want to think of one, use growth rate. They have 1000 employees and $1b in the bank now. They had 1000 e…

Wow, I'm surprised at the level of cynicism here. As a startup, the last thing on your mind is trying to optimize for a situation when a major bank collapses that too in a matter o…

I'm sorry. I should have clarified and I can't edit my original comment now. I meant plagiarized problem statements. Usually these sites have the entire problem statements from our…

Here's what we are doing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31092085 You are right. HN thread triggered this. And we are working on fixing this at the core.

Yes, agree https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31092085

It is fucking happening.

Yes, absolutely. Apologies for the disruption we caused. We are going to make a donation and here are the changes we are making https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31092085