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Re: Ask HN: What can HackerRank do better?

#11
Disclaimer: I've never believed in your product or any similar tool neither as a dev, analyst or manager (10 YOE). I think they're useful for CS competitions, clubs and so forth, but overall I see it the same way people good at Excel or Chess win competitions but that doesn't make them good analysts/devs/employees.

IMO there is a huge gap in the market for facilitating in-person interviews that no tool has really exploited yet.

Re: Ask HN: What can HackerRank do better?

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Disclaimer: I've never believed in your product or any similar tool neither as a dev, analyst or manager (10 YOE). I think they're useful for CS competitions, clubs and so forth, but overall I see it the same way people good at Excel or Chess win competitions but that doesn't make them good analysts/devs/employees. IMO there is a huge gap in the market for facilitating in-person interviews that no tool has really exp…

What would a solution like that look?

Re: Ask HN: What can HackerRank do better?

#14

Not sure if this is not currently possible, but what about adding an LLM integration? I work in DS for a large corp and we're currently working on replacing our hackerrank coding interview with something that lets us evaluate the daily life of a dev a bit more realistically. This includes letting them use LLMs and watching them do exploratory data analysis, instead of just coding.

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

Re: Ask HN: What can HackerRank do better?

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Run with the candidate's local text-editor and local terminal instead of a web-based IDE.

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

I failed many job interviews because of HackerRank's and others' web-based IDE.

Do you mean I can run HackerRank without opening my browser? I didn't see this described in the invitation email I received or the interview URL I clicked.

Re: Ask HN: What can HackerRank do better?

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post #14

Not sure if this is not currently possible, but what about adding an LLM integration? I work in DS for a large corp and we're currently working on replacing our hackerrank coding interview with something that lets us evaluate the daily life of a dev a bit more realistically. This includes letting them use LLMs and watching them do exploratory data analysis, instead of just coding.

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

Yes please!

For additional context, we are currently using problems which have test cases, and it feels as if it doesn't correctly reflect the day-to-day of a data scientist. In fact, many interviewers pass a candidate iff they pass the test cases.

I'd love more open-ended problems.

Re: Ask HN: What can HackerRank do better?

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post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Yes please! For additional context, we are currently using problems which have test cases, and it feels as if it doesn't correctly reflect the day-to-day of a data scientist. In fact, many interviewers pass a candidate iff they pass the test cases. I'd love more open-ended problems.

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?

Re: Ask HN: What can HackerRank do better?

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post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes please! For additional context, we are currently using problems which have test cases, and it feels as if it doesn't correctly reflect the day-to-day of a data scientist. In fact, many interviewers pass a candidate iff they pass the test cases. I'd love more open-ended problems.

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?

Done! Email subject is "HN DS Interviews".
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