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HackerRank (formerly InterviewStreet)
	File:Hackerrank.png
Company type	Private
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Vivek Ravishankar; Hari Karunanidhi;
Products	HackerRank, HackerRank For Work
Website	hackerrank.com

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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). ^[1] 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. ^[2] ^[3] ^[4] ^[5] Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page). ^[6] The customers like Addepar have lauded the Hackathon model of hiring engineers. ^[7]

Funding

Funding Round	Investors	Date	Amount
Angel	Morpheus	2011	$
Seed	Y Combinator	Jun 1, 2011	$200k ^[8]
Series A	Khosla Ventures	2012	$3M
Series B	Dan Rubinstein, Greg Badros, Peeyush Ranjan, Khosla Ventures, Battery Ventures,	Jun 12, 2014	$9.2M

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 ^[9]

References

[1] ttp://www.crunchbase.com/organization/hackerrank

[2] ttp://mum.edu/Customized/uploads/about/publications/achievements/2013_03_17.html

[3] ttps://blog.hackerrank.com/backtoschooltour/

[4] ttp://codesprintquora.quora.com/Congrats-to-our-winners-And-the-contest-is-restarting-for-a-week-long-round-2

[5] ttp://techcrunch.com/2012/02/23/interview-street-codesprints

[6] ttps://www.hackerrank.com/backtoschool/

[7] ttp://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140819005219/en/Addepar-Hosts-Record-Breaking-Coding-Contest-HackerRank-3800#.U_Q1-XV515T

[8] ttp://www.crunchbase.com/organization/hackerrank

[9] ttp://yourstory.com/2013/04/announcing-the-awesome-startup-workplaces/

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