The HackerEarth Way

Entrepreneurs, for real

Roorkee isn’t exactly known for its startup ecosystem, so when an opportunity to work at Google presented itself, CEO Sachin Gupta decided to take it up. He decided to work at Google and moonlight as a co-founder and CEO of his company while the CTO Vivek Prakash continued working from college, but within three months of joining Google, something magical happened.

The team received funding from GSF Accelerator. Shortly afterwards, the company was re-christened to HackerEarth, moved to an office in Indiranagar and went to work.

Core Technology? Check.

Out of that house in Indiranagar, the team built the core of the HackerEarth Assessments product the world sees today. Parallelly, the early embers of the HakerEarth developer community were ignited. Numerous HackerEarth community initiatives such as IndiaHacks, which was HackerEarth’s biggest innovation campaign to date, were launched and fortune 500 clients were on-boarded.

This year was a launchpad for the team, and by the end of 2014, HackerEarth was on a course to become a leading solution provider to businesses, as well as a host to a vibrant community of passionate developers.

Sprinting as fast as possible

HackerEarth launched its second SaaS solution in 2015. It was named HackerEarth Sprint and enabled organizations to create and host a hackathon in five simple steps. Simultaneously, more and more businesses joined the HackerEarth network, after seeing the undeniable value that HackerEarth brings to the recruiting process, as well as the potential of hackathons.

Milestones and memories

The team grew to a hundred passionate HackerEarthlings and moved to a real office space in Koramangala. The HackerEarth brand was launched to the world, and one of the most noteworthy hackathons to be hosted in silicon valley was organized by the team and notably, the HackerEarth community grew to 1 million developers. Looking back, it seemed as though every single day held a promise of great successes and growth in 2016, and this feeling prevails to this day.

Evolution

Riding on the tailwinds of a hugely successful 2016, the team went from strength to strength. Sprint evolved into a full-suite innovation management product, while HackerEarth’s worldwide presence grew, with an office being opened in Europe and aggressive growth in the American markets. By the end of the year, the team had run 1,000 hackathons and innovation campaigns and the company had grown by another 100%.

1000 happy customers

By 2018, HackerEarth had grown to over 1000 customers globally and the community was home to over 3million developers, and the groundwork was done to bring value to customers for the entire lifecycle of a tech team, from sourcing, to assessing and interviewing, to engaging developers within an organization.

Coding interviews, perfected

The non-stop upward trend continued ferociously in 2019, with almost 100% growth. Further, HackerEarth launched another B2B SaaS product: FaceCode, an intelligent and easy-to-use coding interview tool that aimed to reimagine coding interviews, whether they were conducted online or in person.

Remote Revolution

2020 was a challenging year for everyone, but it did not deter the team one bit. There was a 250% YoY increase in remote assessments, while FaceCode saw a 4000% increase in use from 2019, as the world was forced to transition to a completely remote way of working. To continue to help prepare customers for a remote-reality, a complete suite of products was assembled, including an upskilling platform, and of course the community grew even more, to a staggering 5.5 Million developers.

Going beyond

A solid foundation for becoming a leading solution provider for enterprises has been put in place with HackerEarth for Enterprises: a platform that helps organizations build great tech teams by helping them with everything from sourcing and engaging developers, to assessing, interviewing, and upskilling them. Parallelly, India’s largest hackathon ever, the Azure Developer League Hackathon, was hosted on the HackerEarth platform.