We spent 10 years helping companies screen developers with take-home tests. But with AI, anyone can ace a take-home.
So we rebuilt the stack. Meet the new hiring process.
Our video on Senior Dev vs Junior Dev vs Vibe Coder just crossed 850k views on YouTube 🎉
We're shooting the next one in NYC early next month, and we're looking for all 3 roles.
Nominate yourself or someone you know: https://t.co/vAPPt9p3AL
🥁 The results for the September edition of HackerRank Orchestrate are in!
After 24 hours of building, iterating, and putting AI agents to work on a real-world problem, here are the winners:
#1 - Sunny
#2 - Shaurya Gupta
#3 - Vaivaswat Dubey
Congratulations to our winners and a huge thank you to every builder who took part. You made this edition of Orchestrate truly special. 💚
Want to see where you placed? Check out the full leaderboard: https://t.co/5GZPFWCQNK
Stay tuned. The next edition will be here soon!
The circular economy of talent in AI might be the best I've ever seen.
> Anthropic has 55 engineers who came from OpenAI
> OpenAI has 14 from Anthropic
> Stripe is Anthropic's third-biggest feeder with 98 engineers
> 71 of DeepMind alumni now build at OpenAI, 23 at xAI
> xAI is a taker. It took 19 from OpenAI, and 23 from DeepMind
HackerRank Orchestrate is back with another edition on September 12!
And this time there's a lot more to play for: a $2,400 cash prize pool, $22,000+ in Codex credits, and opportunities with leading tech companies.
The last edition brought together builders from nearly 50 countries to design, build, and ship AI agents in a single day.
Here's a quick glimpse of what it looked like👇
Ready to orchestrate? Register now: https://t.co/CyPpdwWCLv
HackerRank Orchestrate is back and it's bigger and better than ever before. 30,000 builders from across the world have signed up to compete against one another on September 12th.
And this time, there's much more to play for:
• $2400 cash prize pool
• $22,000+ in Codex credits
• Opportunities at leading tech companies
• And exclusive HackerRank merch
Think you can orchestrate AI agents into building something meaningful? Then don't watch from the sidelines, sign up here: https://t.co/n4Uqg11HbF
Developers today don't write code, they orchestrate agents.
And when you’re hiring engineers at a company shaping the future of generative media, figuring out who can actually work well with AI becomes a very important problem.
That’s something Harpreet and her team at Adobe think about every day.
And here’s why they’re partnering with HackerRank to make that shift.
When a candidate enters HackerRank’s Agentic Development Environment, they do not have to jump straight into code.
With Plan Mode, they can use the AI Assistant to understand a problem, explore the existing codebase, and create a plan for the task before they write any code.
This reduces unnecessary rework. Candidates can correct misunderstandings or adjust their approach before any code is generated.
For hiring teams, this gives a deeper read on AI fluency: how candidates understand the problem, what questions they ask, and how they use AI to decide on an approach to build.
We don't make candidates do any LeetCode in our hiring.
A candidate just shared their experience with Chakra, our agentic interviewer. It spent 60 minutes with them on:
> Fixing a broken production system
> Measuring real user impact
> Weighing system trade-offs
Anyone can memorize syntax. Engineers should be evaluated on real-world judgment and how they work with AI.