Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 15 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at HackerRank overall takes an average of 13 days.
Common stages of the interview process at HackerRank as a Software Engineer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 33%
One on one interview: 33%
Phone interview: 33%
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great process overall, uses their own platform to dogfood, besides that they are remote forward company and are engineer focused. i believe the interview was thoughtfully planned out. There are areas of improvement everywhere but this place did it well
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at HackerRank (New York, NY) in Mar 2025
Interview
The interview invite was automatically generated and consisted of a DSA question and a real wold example. The data structure question was fairly difficult as companed to the real world react based problem.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They did not ask any questions. The first interview was one of their automated technical tests.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at HackerRank (Irvine, CA) in Sept 2025
Interview
Somewhat fine, but had a problem with last minute rescheduling. Interview was rescheduled twice right before the original time and I was not consulted about the new time. Then, halfway through the full-loop, my interviews were cancelled without any word or reason.
The HR person said they wanted to move forward with other candidates, but not until the day after, wasting my time. All in all, personnel was good but the recruiter was very sloppy.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you design a real-time chat application?