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HackerRank (formerly known as InterviewStreet) is an Indian software startup that works in the domain of competitive programming contests and technical hiring. The company was founded in 2009 with the aim to improve technical hiring by providing tools that help assess coding skills of software engineers. With Facebook and Amazon as its initial clients and the funding from Y Combinator, the company gained momentum and set up its office in Palo Alto. The company now operates from Bangalore and Palo Alto and boasts of customers like Palantir, VMWare, Quora, Facebook, and Flipkart. Other than tech hiring, its competitive programming platform has around a million registered users who regularly participate in the Weekly Contests, Hackathons and annual Codesprints.

History
The company was started as InterviewStreet in 2009 by Vivek Ravisankar and Hari Karunanidhi (alumni of NIT Trichy). who were working on this side-project while employed by Amazon and IBM respectively. Later on, they decided to take this full-time and applied to

Overview
HackerRank is a free platform where hobbyists and professional coders come to solve programming problems. The website has some well defined tracks like Algorithms, Machine Learning and Functional Programming. They organize weekly and monthly coding contests along with annual Codesprints. Through Codesprints, many have found jobs in Silicon Valley tech startups. http://venturebeat.com/2014/06/12/hackerranks-developer-recruiting-tool-relies-on-puzzles-rather-than-resumes/

HackerRank For Work
HackerRank For Work is an online interviewing platform where candidates and interviewers can collaboratively code. Interviewers can set up tests with coding questions or multiple-choice questions, and invite candidates to participate. Later, the interviewer can make use of CodePair for further rounds of interviews. Codepair enables collaborative coding in browser and has features like audio and video chat, and can be carried out in place of a traditional telephonic interviews. The customers like Addepar have lauded the Hackathon model of hiring engineers.

Awards & Recoginition

 * India's first Y Combinator backed company
 * Yourstory.in Awesome Startup Workplaces Award in 2013 - for being among the Top 15 startups in India