HackerRank is a software platform for technical assessment and developer skills evaluation, helping companies hire and train engineers. Founded in 2012 by Vivek Ravisankar and Harikrishnan Iyer, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with major offices in Bangalore and London. As a private company with roughly 1,000 employees, HackerRank serves enterprise and mid-market hiring teams globally. The platform addresses a core problem in technical recruiting: objective, bias-free assessment of coding skills. HackerRank has raised significant venture funding, including Series B and C rounds from leading investors Accel Partners and Khosla Ventures. The company differentiates on breadth of assessments, integration with ATS and HR systems, and a mission to remove subjective bias from technical hiring decisions.
HackerRank operates as a developer-centric company with strong technical leadership and an engineering-first culture. The organization is driven by a mission to democratize technical assessment and make hiring more equitable, attracting employees aligned with that educational impact. The company maintains distributed operations across multiple continents, suggesting flexibility in work arrangements and diverse global perspective. Hiring emphasizes technical depth and passion for solving developer problems at scale.
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| Round | Closed | Amount | Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Series C | Jan 2018 | $30.0M | Accel Partners, Khosla Ventures |
| Series B | Jan 2016 | $20.0M | Accel Partners, Khosla Ventures, YCombinator |
| Title ↕ | Location ↕ | Posted ↓ |
|---|---|---|
| Deep Learning Research Engineer | Hybrid in Bangalore, India | 2d |
| Senior Engineering Manager | Hybrid in Bangalore, India | 2d |
| Principal Product Manager | Hybrid in Bangalore, India | 3d |
| Forward Deployed Engineer | Hybrid in Santa Clara, CA | 3w |
| Customer Experience Engineer, L1 | Hybrid in Bangalore, India | Aug 27 |
| Talent Acquisition Partner- GTM | Hybrid in Santa Clara, CA | Jan 12 |