Best Pre-Employment Assessments: Optimizing Your Hiring Process for 2024
In today’s competitive talent market, attracting and retaining top performers is crucial for any organization’s success. However, traditional hiring methods like relying solely…
The complete guide to hiring a Full-Stack Developer using HackerEarth Assessments
Fullstack development roles became prominent around the early to mid-2010s. This emergence was largely driven by several factors, including the rapid evolution of…
Best Interview Questions For Assessing Tech Culture Fit in 2024
Finding the right talent goes beyond technical skills and experience. Culture fit plays a crucial role in building successful teams and fostering long-term…
Best Hiring Platforms in 2024: Guide for All Recruiters
Looking to onboard a recruiting platform for your hiring needs/ This in-depth guide will teach you how to compare and evaluate hiring platforms…
Best Assessment Software in 2024 for Tech Recruiting
Assessment software has come a long way from its humble beginnings. In education, these tools are breaking down geographical barriers, enabling remote testing…
Top Video Interview Softwares for Tech and Non-Tech Recruiting in 2024: A Comprehensive Review
With a globalized workforce and the rise of remote work models, video interviews enable efficient and flexible candidate screening and evaluation. Video interviews…
8 Top Tech Skills to Hire For in 2024
Hiring is hard — no doubt. Identifying the top technical skills that you should hire for is even harder. But we’ve got your…
How HackerEarth and Olibr are Reshaping Tech Talent Discovery
In the fast-paced tech world, finding the right talent is paramount. For years, HackerEarth has empowered tech recruiters to identify top talent through…
Subjective Match on HackerEarth Assessments: Make Technical Screening Smarter
In tech or coding assessments, subjective questions are open-ended questions that require the candidate to provide a more detailed or nuanced response than…
7 New HackerEarth Assessments Product Updates in 2024 You Should Know About
This year, as the industry went through a hiring freeze, we at HackerEarth took the time to elevate our product lineup so that…
AI Recruiting Software: Revolutionizing the Hiring Process
In today’s dynamic business landscape, organizations are constantly seeking ways to optimize their talent acquisition strategies to attract and retain top performers. The…
A Detailed Guide on Conducting Effective System Design Interviews
System design interviews are becoming increasingly popular, and important, as the digital systems we work with become more complex. The term ‘system’ here…
Bridging the Bias Gap: Enhancing Technical Recruiting with Psychometric Assessment
In the dynamic world of technical recruiting, where skills testing forms the cornerstone of the selection process, we have a potent tool waiting…
How Do You Get Senior Engineers to Take Coding Assessments
I recently came across this post on Reddit, and though it was posted about 3 years ago, it wonderfully encapsulates every senior engineer’s…
How Developer Observability is Transforming Dev Role
This article was written by Alwayne Powell, the Senior Digital Marketing Manager at 8×8 contact centre and communication platform. You can find them…
8 Ways to Streamline your HR Operation with Conversational AI
Artificial intelligence is becoming an indelible part of modern business in every industry and every niche. Business leaders in all sectors nowadays have…
Hackathons vs Conference: Which One Works The Best for Blockchain Industry?
One of the most widely used programming languages in the world, C++ is about 4 decades old. In comparison, Blockchain tech only arrived…
Why Technology in Learning And Development Requires Heavy Investment
Business organizations are constantly trying to keep up-to-date with current trends, and this includes adopting the latest technology to assist with learning and…
What Makes a Tech Interview Great? Hear an Engineer’s Perspective
The truth is, engineers no more look forward to job positions that offer only a great salary. They are growing increasingly biased towards…
Empathetic Technology: The Future of Workplace DE&I?
This article was written with insights from James Deverick at Sage The current state of workplace DE&I When it comes to diversity,…
AI In Recruitment: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has permeated virtually every industry, transforming operations and interactions. The tech recruitment sector is no exception, and AI’s influence shapes…
A Practical Guide To Hire A Technical Writer For Your Tech Team
This is a guest post by Harshala Chavan, founder of Merrative. A stronghold of technical concepts is necessary to write about any specific…
7 LGBTQIA+ Members Talk About Their Experiences During Tech Hiring
From nerve-wracking job interviews to the nail-biting waiting period, navigating the tech industry’s hiring process is often a roller coaster of emotions. Add…
9 Reasons Why HackerEarth Is A Good Alternative To Codility
Imagine hiring a candidate that is the perfect fit for your company. With unbeatable technical skills, impressive communication skills, and a good team…
Looking For A Mettl Alternative? Let’s Talk About HackerEarth
“Every hire is an investment for a company. A good hire will give you a higher ROI; if it is a bad hire,…
Now In Tech: AI, Assessments, And The Great Over-Correction
If you are craving some stability and have had enough adventures, then you are definitely not alone. Over the last 3 years, I’ve…
A Detailed Overview: Cost-Per Hire in Recruitment
Before you invest in hiring an employee, you need to ask yourself this one question: “What is the cost of hiring a new…
HackerEarth Assessments + The Smart Browser: Formula For Bulletproof Tech Hiring
Let’s face it—cheating on tests is quite common. While technology has made a lot of things easier in tech recruiting, it has also…
6 Strategies To Enhance Candidate Engagement In Tech Hiring (+ 3 Unique Examples)
Lately, you are finding it difficult to onboard talented candidates. You notice a lot of candidates are dropping off at the job application…
Upskilling And Reskilling: Ready To Future-Proof Your Workforce?
At the time of writing this, we’re all in the middle of a meltdown in the tech industry. Companies like Meta have had…
How Does HackerEarth Combat The Use Of ChatGPT And Other LLMs In Tech Hiring Assessments?
Ever since ChatGPT made a public debut in November 2022, it has been the fodder for headlines. Its popularity proves that there isn’t…
Spend A Day With A Tech Recruiter During Campus Hiring
“Interns are the bottom of the surgical food chain” — Dr. Bailey, Grey’s Anatomy I’m sure a lot of you are familiar with…
5 Reasons Why Tech Recruiters Are Hiring Managers’ Best Friends
As a recruiter, I want to send a message to all the busy hiring managers out there: some of us want to be…
6 Must-Track Candidate Experience Metrics To Hire Better
Imagine this: You went to a restaurant for lunch. There is a 30 min wait period and you decide to wait since you…
How Values-Based Recruitment In Tech Solves Hiring Struggles
You won’t attract most candidates – no matter how hard you sell or how much employer branding content you drown them in (even…
HackerEarth, 3 years and a new logo
Few people know of it, but me and Vivek had started working on HackerEarth even before we graduated from college. To be specific…
8 Unconsciously Sexist Interview Questions You’re Asking Your Female Candidates
In job interviews, candidates expect to be asked questions about their skills and experience to see if they’re the best fit for the…
Why are Recruiters Switching to Lateral Hiring?
What happens when you have been consistently ordering a Margherita pizza and a Choco lava cake every time you visit Domino’s Pizza? Well,…
Go Beyond Compensation: 10 Employee Benefits for Developers
This article was written by Travis Gravette, CEO of Abenity—an employee perks program In today’s modern world, the benefits package of old that…
7 Best Planning Tools for Recruiters
Host 20 meetings, record everything and report to your boss, find 10 developers for a brand-new project, help newcomers find their place in…
Joel Soucy’s Roadmap To Creating A Seamless Employee Experience
Hire IQ by HackerEarth is a new initiative in which we speak with recruiters, talent acquisition managers, and hiring managers from across the…
Optimize Your Hiring Process With Recruitment Analytics
As a recruiter, you know how painful it is to hire the wrong candidate (or who is not suitable for the job role)….
Tech Layoffs: What To Expect In 2023
Layoffs in the IT industry are becoming more widespread as companies fight to remain competitive in a fast-changing market; many turn to layoffs…
6 Ways To Streamline Tech Hiring With A Recruitment Automation Platform
I have to manually sort through 348 applications for an open role, talk to hiring managers about new vacancies, and handle admin work….
Forecasting Tech Hiring Trends For 2023 With 6 Experts
2023 is here, and it is time to look ahead. Start planning your tech hiring needs as per your business requirements, revamp your…
Candidate Relationship Management—Streamline the Recruiting Process
You are likely to fall back on your recruitment process if you don’t use candidate relationship management software. When you have the software…
7 Best HR Communities You Must Join In 2024
This article was written by Sanketee Kher, a freelance content writer for B2B SaaS. Are you looking to catapult your HR career to…
6 Best Practices to Design Javascript Coding Challenges with APIs
Before we begin, let me share a bit about our journey. At Amadeus for Developers, we offer travel data and services to developers…
5 Tips From Recruiters To Fix Talent Acquisition Issues in 2023
The business world has seen more paradigm shifts in the last couple of years than typically seen in a decade. We have seen…
Diving Deep Into The World Of Data Science With Ashutosh Kumar
Hire IQ by HackerEarth is a new initiative in which we speak with recruiters, talent acquisition managers, and hiring managers from across the…
What Recruiters Can Focus On During A Tech Hiring Freeze
Hiring Freeze! There is nothing more frustrating to a recruiter than this phrase. It doesn’t matter if you are a human resources representative…
Online Hackathons—Accelerate the Development of Low-Code Solutions
When a company allows writers to contribute guest blog posts, their goal is not just to get an in-depth researched article for free…
5 Best Practices For An Effective Hybrid Campus recruitment Strategy
Picture this: You are sitting in the conference room with the leadership team. The team asks you about the roadmap for the company’s…
How To Do Tech Recruitment Marketing Efficiently?
Indeed it’s true that 2020 was a tough year for the whole world to handle. However, the adverse effect of the pandemic also…
10 Key Employee Retention Strategies In Tech
Goodbyes are dreadful. Especially, when they come one after the other—from your employees who joined just 6 months back. “They are just running…
Spend A Day With: A Tech Recruiter
In a mythical land far, far away… Tech recruiters and talent acquisition specialists have been rumored to live in harmony with unicorns and…
8 Recruitment Trends That Will Impact Talent Acquisition in 2024
New year. New you. New recruitment trends. And with this, you need to tweak your ongoing strategies to find the best tech talent….
How Tech Recruiters Can Build Better Employer Branding With Marketing
An employer brand plays a crucial role in the employee value proposition. It essentially refers to what the organization has successfully communicated as…
Importance Of Online Proctoring In University Hiring
What is online proctoring? Online proctoring is a way to administer exams remotely using a computer and webcam. The proctor (a person who…
How AI Is Transforming The Talent Acquisition Process In Tech?
Isabella is a recruiter at a multinational company with 1000+ employees. Her responsibility is to recruit the top talent—which she performs well by…
10 Tech Recruiting Strategies To Find The Best Tech Talent
Like an onion’s skin, recruiters uncover multiple layers in their recruitment process: sourcing, screening, and evaluation to find the best talent with the…
Developers Skill Assessment Software: Testing Beyond the Technical
Skill assessment software has become the new buzzword in the software development industry. Recruiters are looking for highly skilled candidates to handle their…
4 Images That Show What Developers Think Of Layoffs In Tech
Some days ago, we polled our Twitter and LinkedIn community and asked them if they would ever take another job at the company…
IT Recruiting: Strategy and Tips for Success
Hiring skilled personnel is the top priority for any HR manager, as the organization’s success is directly linked to the quality of professionals…
The Rise Of Code Assessment Platforms And Software Developer Recruitment
Automation and digitalization are the two most potent driving forces transforming modern societies rapidly. Most countries are investing heavily in these two technologies,…
Throwback To Our Top 7 INNOVATIVE Hackathons
18% of hiring managers state that finding qualified entry-level technology talent has become even more complex over the last year (an 8% increase…
5 Tech Roles Still In Demand in 2023
On any given day, you can be sure that there are tons of tech roles that are always in demand, the game is…
Greeks to Geeks: What Plato Says About Bettering Your Team Culture
In the third edition of HackerEarth’s flagship tech conference – Hire 10(1), our keynote speaker from Adobe, Mr. Mino Thomas, used a word…
Redefine Remote Work Management With These 6 Automation Tools
When working at the office, tasks can be accomplished easily using the internet. The physical presence of every teammate also helps a lot….
7 Changes In HackerEarth Assessments You Missed Out On
18% of hiring managers state that finding qualified entry-level technology talent has become even more complex over the last year (an 8% increase…
Effective Workplace Communication Tips For Remote Teams
Team members who work remotely face communication challenges every day. The digital work environment brings a host of challenges for organizations and they…
Virtual Hackathons: All You Need To Know
Virtual hackathons are online events where people come together to explore challenges, and design and build solutions. Unlike physical hackathons, in a virtual…
Internal Hackathons: Drive Innovation And Increase Engagement In Tech Teams
In recent years, multiple avenues have opened up for successful tech hiring and hackathons are one of everyone’s favorites. Apart from helping various…
What Tech Companies Need To Know About Quiet Quitting
Picture this: your employee is on vacation. Before taking their time off, they submitted all the tasks assigned. But, the manager reviewed their…
The 3 Biggest Changes On FaceCode Since You Were Last Here
We all love tasks when they are simplified, don’t we? FaceCode is an online coding assessment platform that renders the interview process simple….
How To Create A Great Take-home Coding Test
Like with any other job role, in order to be a successful developer, you have to possess the required coding skills. It can…
5 Best Technical Screening Platforms
Recruitment, in general, has undergone several transformations in recent years and it comes as no surprise that most of these were influenced by…
Hire1O(1): 6 Takeaways From The Biggest Tech Conference in 2022
We at HackerEarth are excited to announce that the first physical edition of Hire 10(1) held on August 25th, 2022 in Bangalore was…
What Leadership Means To Us At HackerEarth
“If you want your people to think, don’t give instructions, give intent.” – David Marquet, US Navy A little over a year ago,…
How To Screen Java Developers
Due to the number of increasing use cases, Java is among the most used programming languages right now. This goes without saying, the…
Talking #BlackLinkedIn and DEI with Patricia Gatlin
Hire IQ by HackerEarth is a new initiative in which we speak with recruiters, talent acquisition managers, and hiring managers from across the…
Interview Questions To Ask Cybersecurity Candidates
Cybersecurity is among the most critical aspects of building an online business and it goes without saying it needs to have an expert…
How To Keep Your Application Process Mobile Friendly
Mobile phones are no longer just a ‘telephony device’ used for communicating with your friends and family. It has transformed into a robust…
Role of AI In Hiring Software Engineers
Artificial intelligence has generated a lot of buzz lately. Popular AI techniques like computer vision and object recognition have revolutionized the scope of…
The Impact Of Remote And Hybrid Working Models On DevOps
A few years ago, the concept of working remotely or hybrid-working was quite far-fetched for the general public. No one really gave it…
Here Is How You Can Identify And Close Skill Gaps In Software Development
The skills gap is real. There’s no way around it and it has only been increasing exponentially. Nearly one-third of employers surveyed in…
Building An Employer Brand: Everything You Need To Know
The future is now! Every aspect of handling a business has seen a significant change in recent years and quite a lot of…
Hiring DEV Talent: SQL Interview Questions
With SQL taking its place among the most popular developing languages for the management of data, as per this 2021 report by Statista,…
Common Virtual Recruiting Pitfalls And How To Avoid Them
The perks of working from home definitely outweigh what working in an office environment has to offer. From travel time being eliminated to…
What We Learnt From Target’s Diversity And Inclusion Strategy
Having a diversity and inclusion strategy for an organization helps foster a diverse workplace where everyone feels comfortable and accepted and to leverage…
What Top Developers Are Looking For In Their Next Job: A Data-Backed Answer
The tech industry was one of the hardest hit industries due to the Great Resignation. More than 4.5 million people in the U.S….
Data-Driven Recruiting: All You Need To Know
Hiring and talent acquisition are the cornerstones of business growth. When you need to scale your business, you look at the recruiting teams…
Create The Perfect Virtual Recruiting Strategy For Universities With These Tips
On-campus recruiting has been decreasing in popularity over the years. Running up high travel costs and being time-intensive is less than ideal in…
Dogfooding 101: How Internal Beta Testing Can Help Developers
Dogfooding helps organizations understand how their product is performing in the real world and acts as quality control. Know how it can help…
Streamline Your Recruitment Process With These 7 Tips
If we recruiters dream, it would be about how easy tech recruitment could be—create a job vacancy post, watch the applications pour in,…
7 Ways To Reduce Burnout In Your Tech Teams
The pandemic has resulted in a new kind of workplace burnout—making employee well-being more critical than ever. An Indeed survey reports 67% of…
Everything You Need To Know About Adding Job Simulations To Your Hiring Process
The job market is always changing – and with it, the way companies recruit and hire new employees. From in-person interviews to virtual…
Top 10 Programming Languages Of The Future
The future of coding is difficult to predict because different people have unique perspectives and sectors in which they work. For example, an…
How AI/ML is changing the way businesses work
Businesses around the world are constantly evolving and with that comes new opportunities for companies to improve their operations and grow their reach….
Hire The Best Coders For Your Team With HackerEarth’s Coding Assessment
Before the pandemic, companies that wanted to hire coders would call them in for a technical round that was conducted at the office…
All You Need To Know About Hiring For Hyper-Growth Tech Startups
Hiring top-tier talent is one of the most important elements of the startup puzzle and yet, it is the hardest thing to get…
In Conversation: Colet Coelho, Head of Talent Acquisition, Recruit CRM
Hire IQ by HackerEarth is a new initiative in which we speak with recruiters, talent acquisition managers, and hiring managers from across the…
6 Things To Look For In Your Coding Assessment Tool
Two years of the world adapting to new ways of working and the tech industry has pretty much seen it all. From working…
The ‘Great Resignation’ In The Tech Industry – How To Prevent It
Are you worried about the great resignation in tech? This is a problem that is affecting businesses all over the world. But don’t…
Remote Work & Recruitment: An ATS Story
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has changed the rules of the game in the workplace forever. There were countless shifts in different spheres of…
How Hackathons Can Help You Attract, Engage, Hire, And Train Top Talent
Ever since the pandemic hit, employers have had to fill positions without requiring candidates to go through an extensive in-person interview process. As…
How Your Tech Stack Can Help You Hire Top Talent
The great resignation has been on the minds of many IT organizations and their business leaders ever since nearly 4 million people quit…
4 Things The Pandemic Taught Us About Diverse Tech Teams
Over the last decade, organizations from all over the world were slowly gaining momentum when it came to diversity and inclusion at the…
3 Things To Know About Remote Proctoring
Before we get into how to make your proctoring experience fool-proof and hassle-free, let us take a look at what remote proctoring is….
What Recruiters Forecast For Tech Hiring In 2022
Tech hiring has changed since the pandemic, and in the wake of the Great Resignation. We are looking at the important tech hiring…
How To Hire Tech Talent When You Don’t Have A Technical Background
You are reading this, nodding your head because you have been there before. You’ve tried hiring tech talent when you yourself do not…
7 Tech Recruiting Trends To Watch Out For In 2024
The last couple of years transformed how the world works and the tech industry is no exception. Remote work, candidate-driven market, automation are…
Tech Hiring Challenges – What NOT To Do When Recruiting Fresh Talent
It goes without saying that the tech field is booming and as a business owner, you are probably well aware of the current…
Tips to Identify and Remove Unintended Bias In the Assessment Process
If you are reading this article, you are probably looking to make your tech recruitment process more equitable and fair. Over the years,…
How To Create An Automated Assessment With HackerEarth
The tech industry has undergone major shifts in its processes due to the pandemic—the most significant one being remote work. Existing recruiting strategies…
Top Developers Point Out 4 Mistakes With Tech Hiring Assessments
Can tech hiring assessments be made foolproof? These tips from our trusted developer community can help you improve yours now!
How To Assess Programming Skills Before Hiring
Technical talent is becoming the most sought-after talent in the IT industry with 86% of technology leaders saying it’s challenging to find qualified…
Remote Hiring And Onboarding Tips For Technical Roles
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced an unprecedented number of individuals to work from home and the business landscape has shifted to adapt to…
Complete Coding Assessment Guide – Definition, Advantages, and Best Practices
Here's an expert-written coding assessment guide to help you create foolproof coding tests for your developer hiring process.
Hiring Remote Developers Versus Relocation – What To Choose in 2024?
Tech companies are facing difficulties filling job positions in their area and turning to remote hiring. We delve deeper into the pros and…
The Self-Taught Developer’s Guide to Learning How to Code on Their Own
I have had a lot of fun these last two years seeing Twitter blow up every time Elon Musk took to it. There’s…
3 Skills For Digital Transformation In 2023 and How to Hire for Them
The race for qualified talent is on. As your digital transformation journey continues, it’s important that your new hires have the skills necessary…
The A-Zs Of Tech Recruiting: A Guide
Developers today require a lot more from their jobs than just decent compensation and bonuses. In 2022, flexibility and work-from-home options take on…
Boolean Search Strings: 5 Essential Tips For Recruiters
Blindly sinking resources into hiring drives with recruiters scouring the Internet for hours looking for suitable job profiles will not cut it anymore….
3 Tips To Help You Make The Shift Towards Remote Hiring In 2022
2020 changed the way the globe went to work. While business continuity plans were quickly activated to offset the volatility of the pandemic,…
7 Steps To Eliminate Bias In A Hybrid Workplace
The past nineteen months saw organizations adjust to the fully remote work model and now, the time has come to shift to a…
How to Calculate Your Tech Recruitment ROI
The demand for technical talent is higher than ever. Our brand new edition of the State Of Developer Recruitment survey reports that over…
5 Reasons For Bad Candidate Experience In Tech Interviews
In 2023, the one thing on top of the mind of any tech organization should be aiming for happier employees. Happier employees are…
Diversity And Inclusion in 2023: 5 Essentials Rules To Follow
Enough data is in to inform us that diversity and inclusion are not only worthwhile societal imperatives but also make for good practical…
War For Talent: 4 Tips for Tech Founders On Team Building And Scaling
With a surge of tech expansion fueled by the Covid-19 pandemic and a predicted mass exodus of workers later this year, many software…
How You Can Leverage Candidate Experience To Attract Top Talent
Businesses place a lot of value on customer experience. From the logo to the UI/UX, the service, the products – everything is well-thought-of,…
4 Essential Mistakes To Avoid During Pair Programming Interviews
Pair programming interviews can help you hire top talent, but only if you use it wisely. Let our in-house team guide you on…
Guide To Creating Candidate Personas For Tech Teams
Candidate personas can help you source, and hire top tech talent easily. Learn more with this nifty guide from our experts!
4 Reasons Why Coding Interviews Are Broken
Spoiler alert: I’m not a coder. And I’ve never had a coding interview. But I work for a company whose flagship product for…
Reshaping The Education Landscape For India’s Future-Ready Tech Talent
In May this year the global banking giant Credit Suisse reported that it would hire more than a thousand developers from India, making…
Embracing DE&I At The Workplace – #1 Back To The Basics
Figuring out the ins and outs of as broad a subject as diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) can be tough. You could be…
Code In Progress – The Life And Times Of Developers In 2021
Developers. Are they as mysterious as everyone makes them out to be? Is coding the only thing they do all day? Good coders…
In Conversation: Charles Rue, Head Of Talent Acquisition, IHS Markit
How does a global giant like IHS Markit handle diversity and inclusion initiatives across its various locations? Their expert, and a passionate advocate…
What Makes Us The Tech Behind Great Tech Teams
If you are a recruiter or a hiring manager, the first thought that pops into your head when you think ‘tech hiring’ would…
Why Organizations Should Not Stop Skill Assessment Post Hiring
Hiring for skills is not a one-time activity. Building a robust tech team requires continuous focus on skill assessment and learning. Here's why...
Corporate Compassion In The New ‘New Normal’: Where Do You Stand?
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made…
FaceCode Update: 4 New Features That Make Remote Interviews Easier!
You asked and we listened! Here is the list of four new updates on FaceCode that will make your remote interviewing process even…
5 Steps To Create A Remote-First Candidate Experience In Recruitment
This article has been updated on April 7th, 2023. The pandemic-led era opened an entirely different world to us: tech companies transitioned to…
The Ultimate Guide To Social Recruiting
Since the pandemic first hit in 2020, it has shuttered offices and industries had to adapt on the fly to continue working remotely….
CTOs vs. Attrition: Tips To Keep Tech Employee Churn Low
Tech attrition is a problem all CTOs grapple with. Here are some tried-and-tested tips from our own, which we hope will help you…
HackerEarth Integrates With LinkedIn Talent Hub For A Streamlined Hiring Workflow
LinkedIn Talent Hub is the latest addition to HackerEarth’s long list of ATS integration partners! You can now schedule HackerEarth Assessments, among other…
Hackathon Survival Guide: What You Need To Know Going Into A Hackathon
What does it take to win a hackathon? How do pro developers go about planning for global domination? Airblock's Brian Hough tells us…
How To Run The Perfect Virtual Hackathon – Do’s & Dont’s
There’s a pretty popular saying about Hackathons. It goes something like “Hackathons are where your crazy ideas become a reality.” And I love…
21 Tech Recruiting Tools To Scale Your Hiring In 2023
This article has been updated on 3rd February 2023. The conventional methods of recruiting can no longer keep up with the rapidly changing…
HackerEarth and Lever Join Forces To Step Up The Tech Hiring Process
HackerEarth proudly announces the newest addition to its ever-growing list of ATS integrations – Lever! The Lever ATS is scalable, intuitive, and has…
How Engineering Managers Can Help Recruiters Improve Developer Hiring
I need no help with increasing my talent pipeline, said no recruiter ever. Hiring managers have an important role to play in increasing…
Pros And Cons Of Hiring Full-Stack Developers Over Front Or Back-End Developers
Full-stack developers are in high demand, but before you hire one make sure your tech team is ready for this new addition. Learn…
How To Build Safe And ‘PROUD’ Workplaces – A Personal Story
A personal note from HackerEarth's HR Director on what makes workplaces safe and inclusive, for employees who fall under the LGBTQIA+ umbrella.
Building Future-Ready Tech Teams
For the third year in a row, there is a massive increase in the skills gap across industries, with nearly 80% of organizations…
Lessons In Productivity From Radoslav Stankov (Product Hunt)
What makes a productive coder? We asked one of the best in the game to give us his tips, and he did! Learn…
This Is Recruiting: Increasing Your Diversity Hiring ROI
Diversity hiring is an important metric for every recruiter, but not all of us know how to go about it. These expert tips…
10 Must-Read Recruitment Books for 2023
This article has been updated on April 3rd, 2023. There’s no such thing as finding the right time to catch up on your…
Hiring The Class Of 2021: A Guide For Recruiters
The class of 2020 had it rough, and now it's our turn as recruiters to give them the place at the table that…
(Part 2) Essential Questions To Ask When Interviewing Developers In 2021
The first part of this blog stresses the importance of asking the right technical interview questions to assess a candidate’s coding skills. But…
(Part 1) Essential Questions To Ask When Recruiting Developers In 2021
The minute a developer position opens up, recruiters feel a familiar twinge of fear run down their spines. They recall their previous interview…
7 Employee Engagement Strategies For WFH Tech Teams
“When you work from home, a Tuesday is pretty much a Saturday.” This sounds like something I would say. Having been confined to…
Are Remote Internships A New Fad Or Are They Here To Stay?
The intern hiring season (beginning in February) usually serves as a breath of fresh air, and offers an undisturbed, fresh talent pool for…
This Is Recruiting: How To Limit Bias In Tech Recruiting?
Domina McQuade, Microsoft Azure’s Senior Recruiting Manager had some interesting things to share when it comes to limiting bias in recruiting.
We Built The Tech That Can Help YOU Build Great Tech Teams
HackerEarth for Enterprises is the tech industry’s first comprehensive platform that unites every step of the tech employee lifecycle from engaging, sourcing, hiring,…
HackerEarth Announces Integration With Naukri RMS
HackerEarth has always taken tech hiring to the next level. It offers integrations with the most popular Application Tracking Systems (ATS), the latest…
Recruiters Versus Bias: Who’s Winning This War?
Gender. Race. Caste. You name it and people will find a way to be biased about it. Bias is part of the human…
This Is Recruiting: Is Tech Recruiting A Sales Or A Marketing Role?
A recruiter is a recruiter is a recruiter. Right? Wrong! A good recruiter is the face of a company, and the personification of…
3 Reasons Why I’ll Continue Using Remote Interviewing Tools Even Post-Pandemic
It's back to office again for many of us, but the lessons learnt during our 'remote' phase are here to stay. We're leaning…
5 Lessons From Running 200 Remote Hackathons
Hackathons are a mood! With COVID though, the HackerEarth team had to regroup and rethink how to conduct these events online. Our learnings…
Automated Reports On FaceCode
Writing a balanced and well-detailed interview summary is not only time consuming but also demands significant cognitive overload to take notes and record…
FaceCode: The DEFINITIVE Way To Conduct Coding Interviews
"I love spending hours in coding interviews", said no hiring manager ever. We spoke to recruiters and managers alike to understand the issues…
Inside The Mind Of A Data Scientist
Data science is an in-demand role, but hiring data scientists isn't easy. With our new product feature, we make it simpler for tech…
The Top 3 Challenges in Assessing and Hiring Full-Stack Developers
Full-stack developers are called the 'Swiss Army Knives' of the coding world. They might as well be called truffles because they are so…
So Long 2020, And Thank You For All The ‘What-The-Fish’!
The year that shouldn't have been has ended, but the lessons will remain. Our CEO shares his views on the post-COVID changes in…
(Part 1 )When Cabbies Make Ace Coders: Why Skill-Based Hiring Matters In Tech
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[Culture] “There’s work. And then there’s work you’re proud of” – Advitiya Sharma, Co-Founder, Housing.com
Have you ever seen a school of fish? In the ocean a large group of fish move together, as if they were one…
Want to reward your employees? Avoid cash rewards, give them an iPad
That’s obvious right? I mean, who wouldn’t want an iPad. But the point I’m trying to make here is bigger. As a HR…
[Culture] Work at Passport Parking – “we promise that every day you’ll find yourself asking how it could possibly be evening already!”
The last twenty years or so has been a testament to individuals or a small group of individuals looking at a way particular…
Why do we not have enough women programmers?
Without being a sexist, if I were to ask you the number of intelligent women programmers that you know of, how many do…
An API, an Ecosystem, a movement
When services like Codeacademy launched, its implications to the world of computer education was quite immense. There was now, a code editor on…
[Culture] At Smart Owner technology meets real estate in an independent and intelligent way
The way in which something as brick and mortar (quite literally!) like real estate has converged with technology has been quite remarkable. In…
[Culture] At ZipDial, you’re probably going to work on what you’re good at!
A business based on missed calls? Well, for anyone who’d start something like that, most people would have said, ‘good luck’. But when…
[Culture] At Freshdesk, relationships come first; work next
The most practical times to start up is either before you have children and after they’ve left home. However, in the past few…
Want to land a job at Google? No Degree? No problem.
I was speaking with a professor at a university, which had an abysmal placement record. It was a touchy topic but I had…
To remote work or not – that is the question.
About two years ago, David Heinemeier Hansson, founder of ruby on rails and partner at 37Signals, wrote a really strong worded piece on…
Segmentation Fault – Debugging Contest by IIIT Allahabad
Segmentation Fault was one of its kind online debugging contest conducted on HackerEarth on 22nd October 2013. Organized by IIIT ALLAHABAD, it aimed at…
Scaling database with Django and HAProxy
MySQL – Primary data store At HackerEarth, we use MySQL database as the primary data store. We have experimented with a few NoSQL…
Cracking a technical interview
After working through rigorous years in college, the placement season is finally upon you. You applied for your dream company and fortunately, were…
Learn to Code by Competitive Programming
How do I Learn to Code? This is probably the most nagging question at the back of your mind once you have decided…
Join as a Python developer at HackerEarth
HackerEarth is a pretty cool place to work Help us the change the way programmers write code and get hired.HackerEarth is a tech…
Continuous Deployment System
This is one of the coolest and most important things we recently built at HackerEarth. What’s so cool about it? Just have a…
My summer internship at HackerEarth
My summer internship at HackerEarth has ended but the learning over past two months at HackerEarth has been more enriching than any education…
An open letter to our users
We would like to convey our deepest apology to all the participants of InMobi Hiring Challenge. We messed up this one, we realize…