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Beyond the Resume – HackerRank coding competitions can help companies find talent

While working as a software engineer at Amazon, Vivek Ravisankar found himself growing frustrated at the sheer amount of time and effort it typically took to hire just one engineer — time that could be better spent on building great products, he says.

"I used to have to go through 10 or 12 interviews just to get one person for an on-site interview, and then go through at least three on-site interviews in order to make one job offer," says Ravisankar. "It added up to 30 interviews to fill one position."

An additional frustration was that there was no easy way to quantify, or "score," candidates, says Ravisankar.

His experiences eventually led him to co-found HackerRank https://www.hackerrank.com/ in 2012, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based firm that uses coding challenges to help aspiring programmers and software engineers break into the IT field.

By Andrew R. McIlvaine

Full Story: http://www.hreonline.com/HRE/view/story.jhtml?id=534361575

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