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[Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated July 21st, 2026 # Reviews of HackerRank Ease of use 4.6 Customer Service 4.4 ## Pros and Cons in Reviews GL Georgia L Senior Recruitment CoordinatorComputer Software, 1,001 - 5,000 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “Working with them has allowed us to run new processes, have reliable data to back up changes and trust in what we are trying to build - together.“ February 27, 2026 Surendra M Software EngineerFinancial Services, 5,001 - 10,000 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “Conducting interviews from a mobile screen is painful — the UI doesn't adapt well and navigating code, notes, and controls on a small display is a hassle.“ July 15, 2026 AS Arby Fahrizi S Technology PlanningBanking, 501 - 1,000 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “This objective, data-driven approach ensures fairness and allows us to compare candidates on a level playing field, leading to more reliable and equitable hiring outcomes“ November 19, 2025 Sudheer Y Lead HR-Talent AcquisitionAirlines/Aviation, 1,001 - 5,000 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “HackerRank offers recruiters a scalable and objective way to assess technical skills, streamlining candidate screening and improving fairness, but some candidates dislike its algorithmic focus and fast-paced environment.“ October 27, 2025 VP Vinh P Software ArchitectInformation Technology and Services, 51 - 200 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “Recently AI feature allows us to expand the test and adjust the process/technical requirements needed for the new age“ June 29, 2026 VP Vinh P Software ArchitectInformation Technology and Services, 51 - 200 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “Candidates still report occasional instability: test running too long, VSCode crashes though it is getting better“ June 29, 2026 Prishi K SDEComputer Software, 10,001+ employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “HackerRank is a solid platform for conducting technical assessments, particularly for programming and coding-focused evaluations.“ July 14, 2026 AS Abhinav S Talent Acquisition Lead - IndiaComputer Software, 51 - 200 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “Interview platform is bit less user friendly as sometime it takes a while to admit candidates into the meeting on video call and they do join the chat and it leaves them bit confused as to whether they are actually logged in or not“ September 15, 2025 ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 1-25 of 92 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use Prishi K. SDE Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "A Reliable Hiring Tool with Room to Grow Beyond Coding" July 14, 2026 4.0 HackerRank is a solid platform for conducting technical assessments, particularly for programming and coding-focused evaluations. The built-in question library, candidate monitoring features, and ease of standardizing assessments make it a reliable choice for most engineering hiring workflows. That said, the platform has room to grow in certain areas: Architectural & system design questions – HackerRank is not yet optimized for architecture-style assessments. The tooling for whiteboarding, diagramming, and evaluating system design thinking feels underdeveloped compared to its strong coding evaluation capabilities. Pros Key highlights include: Candidate activity monitoring – The platform tracks time-on-screen and captures screen size metadata, which helps reviewers assess candidate behavior and flag potential anomalies during assessments. Question library & defaults – Adding default/pre-built questions is straightforward, making it easy to standardize assessments across roles without starting from scratch each time. Ease of setup – The overall configuration experience is intuitive, reducing the administrative overhead for hiring teams. These features collectively make HackerRank a strong choice for teams looking to run structured, auditable technical interviews at scale. Cons While HackerRank excels in many areas, there are a few friction points worth noting: Custom question creation is cumbersome – Adding custom questions is not straightforward and can be time-consuming, especially for teams that need to tailor assessments beyond the default library. The process lacks the simplicity you'd expect given how polished the rest of the platform is. Diagram-based questions are challenging for candidates – When assessments include custom diagrams or drawing-type questions, candidates often struggle with the interface. The drawing tools are not intuitive, which can introduce unnecessary friction during the test and may affect performance for reasons unrelated to the candidate's actual skill. These limitations are worth considering if your hiring process relies heavily on custom or visual problem formats — in such cases, supplementing HackerRank with a dedicated diagramming or whiteboarding tool may be necessary. Review Source GL Georgia L. Senior Recruitment Coordinator Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Outstanding Partnership and Value" February 27, 2026 5.0 Hugely positive. The team are great and very responsive, they are as invested as we are to innovate and overcome challenges and this makes for a fantastic partnership. Working with them has allowed us to run new processes, have reliable data to back up changes and trust in what we are trying to build - together. Excellent value for money, helping us to save vast amounts whilst not faltering on quality. Pros How it enabled us to scale and to improve our processes. The platform is incredibly easy to navigate and use. It gives us a great window into how someone will perform in their interviews and shifting to live coding interviews has been game changing. Cons In the interviews the video aspect isn't great and could potentially be smoother if it ran through Google Meet instead. Alternatives considered [CoderPad](https://www.capterra.com/p/204479/CoderPad/) Reason for choosing HackerRank Ease of use, ability to scale if we need to Switched from [Karat](https://www.capterra.com/p/252333/Karat-Interviewing-Cloud/) karat was too expensive and not fit for purpose anymore Review Source RB Rajul B. Advisor Computer Networking Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Hackerrank review" June 18, 2026 5.0 Overall, our experience with HackerRank has been positive. The platform has enabled us to efficiently assess technical talent at scale through standardized and objective evaluations. Its extensive question library, assessment customization options, and integrity features have helped improve the quality of candidate screening while reducing manual effort Pros \* Scalable technical assessments that allow evaluation of large candidate pools efficiently. \* Objective and standardized evaluation, helping reduce bias in the screening process. \* Wide library of role-based questions across coding, SQL, AI/ML, security, and other technical domain Cons Extremely hard DSA \* Competitive programming questions \* Questions that feel unrelated to the actual role Switched from [SHL Talent Acquisition](https://www.capterra.com/p/10008568/Talent-Acquisition/) Good reviews from word of mouth and other company using the same product Review Source SW Sayali W. Talent Acqusition Airlines/Aviation Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Strong Platform for Technical Hiring" May 7, 2026 3.0 Overall it solves the purpose to get creame candidates for technical development roles, Real Time monitoring candidate's activiy, Flagging the plagarism, Many types of coding questions for all levels, good opportunity for hiring managers to select. Pros Real Time Test Monitoring, Flagging code duplicates, Plagarism, Gives good filteration of candidates Cons UI is not good, Its lags alot, keeps on parsing, shows red notifications, report download takes time, very slow Review Source TO Tyra O. People Operations Specialist II Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Very Satisfied with our Partnership with HackerRank!" March 19, 2026 5.0 Overall, our experience with HackerRank has been exceptionally positive. We feel very confident in the product, and the HackerRank team enables us to get the best use out of the partnership. Pros We absolutely love the support we get when working with the HackerRank team. We've been working with \[sensitive content hidden\] for years now, and we are not shy about telling her that she is one of our favorite vendors to work with. \[sensitive content hidden\] goes out of her way to ensure we are fully informed on new offerings and opportunities to take advantage of. The HackerRank team is dedicated to making sure we are satisfied with their product. We had a few questions about a new offering recently, and their team offered to hold a session to walk our team through a demo and hold a Q&A to ensure we felt enabled and empowered! Cons There's nothing that we would categorize as "disliking" about HackerRank. We have thoroughly enjoyed our partnership so far. Switched from [CoderPad](https://www.capterra.com/p/204479/CoderPad/) We wanted a more robust solution, and we had gotten feedback from the engineering team that there were limitations they were facing with CoderPad Review Source Surendra M. Software Engineer Financial Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great for live technical interviews — just needs better mobile UX" July 15, 2026 5.0 Been using it regularly for candidate interviews and it does the job well. The tooling around proctoring, playback, and collaboration makes the whole hiring loop smoother. A few UX improvements on mobile and question history would make it near perfect. Pros Wide language support makes it easy to interview candidates in their preferred stack. I love that I can save questions to my own library and reuse them across interviews — also having access to the firm's shared library is a huge time saver. The private notes feature is great without the candidate seeing it. Recording interviews and being able to reopen them later to re-run test cases against a candidate's solution is incredibly useful when you need to revisit a decision. The observation mode help me silently watch the interview. The away-from-screen and tab-switch notifications give good visibility into candidate behaviour during the test. Cons Conducting interviews from a mobile screen is painful — the UI doesn't adapt well and navigating code, notes, and controls on a small display is a hassle. Also, there's no easy way to see my history of past questions asked. If I forget to save a question to my library, it's gone — would be nice to have a "recently used" or question history tied to my user profile without needing to explicitly save every time. Review Source VP Vinh P. Software Architect Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "New age of recruitement with Hackerrank" June 29, 2026 4.0 Overall great. Love the platform, especially if you are the question creator/reviewer. The engagement with the sale team overall good. They are being helpful as they can and answer questions relatively quickly. Pros Dedicated IDE like Visual Code + MySQL support so we can design a thorough test with unit test running. Protoc features for ensuring fairness of the test even though candidates do test at home. Recently AI feature allows us to expand the test and adjust the process/technical requirements needed for the new age Cons Candidates still report occasional instability: test running too long, VSCode crashes though it is getting better AI efficiency marking is inconsistent and unreliable at the moment. AI responses can also be inconsistent for the exact same prompt making a few candidates can have a better head start or worst start by random. Review Source AO Andy O. Recruitment Business Partner Gambling & Casinos Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Hackerank Review" July 1, 2026 4.0 Really positive, the platform is super easy to use. I have gathered feedback from across the business which is also very positive. Pros Ease of use - so easy to setup a new test, even without development expertise. The ATS integration is also very handy. The Interview or pair programming tests offer a great insight into a candidates technical ability and also how they take onboard technical direction. The customer service is also good - always happy to help and talk through any issues/blockers. Cons Whilst the ATS integration is good it would be better if it include the setup of Interviews rather than just take home tests. Review Source MA Manish A. Staff Software Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Hackerrank for Interviews and practice solutions" June 10, 2026 4.0 Its awesome platform with built in tests and challenges which helps a lot and saves time for interviews. Pros Ease of use and easy design and technical challenge. UI is very user friendly and it allows to also proctor test. Cons Sometimes the portal hangs and I was unable to conduct interview of candidates but their support team is good and they resolved it promptly. Review Source RB Rashmi B. Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Great Platform for Candidate Evaluation" July 30, 2026 5.0 Great interviewing platform. It is very easy and intuitive to work with. Makes interviewing a seamless process Pros Great collection of questions to choose from. Like the language and framework support as well. Whiteboard is a great addition too. Cons Nothing that i have encountered yet. Though one thing to callout is the suspicious behavior is something i am not sure how to take that information into account. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Data Scientist Internet Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "HackerRank is reliable platform for structure technical hiring" February 28, 2026 4.0 Overall, my experience has been positive. It has made our technical screening process more efficient. I also like how it give detailed insights on candidate's test performace Pros What I liked most about hackerrank is how structured it makes our technical hiring. The platform also has a very strong question library and supports multiple programming languages Cons The interface feels a bit cluttered sometimes and also setting up assessments might take time initially as the features are not very intuitive Review Source SS Syed S. Senior Talent Attraction Partner Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "HackerRank\_One stop for your talent search" October 13, 2025 5.0 Overall it's very great experience to asses the candidates. Great tool for any tech company to invest to get top talent. Pros Integrity, Easy tool, AI features, It's simple and user friendly user experience. I like it's accuracy Cons I feel sometime it raises plagiarism for genuine cases as well due to it's algorithms. Team has to work on this. Review Source AD Ana D. HR Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Great experience" October 8, 2025 5.0 Pros What I liked most about HackerRank is its hands-on approach to learning and assessment. The platform offers a wide range of real-world coding challenges that help me improve problem-solving skills, practice different programming concepts, and benchmark my abilities against a global community of developers. Cons What I liked least about HackerRank is that some challenges can feel overly rigid, with strict input/output formats and constraints that may not fully reflect real-world coding scenarios. While this structure is useful for standardized assessment, it can sometimes limit creative problem-solving. Review Source NCP Neelima Chowdary P. Talent Advisor Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Talent Advisor" December 10, 2025 5.0 So far It's a good collaborative tool which is a handshake between the recruitment team and interviewers Pros It has an amazing feature for Interviews and AI hackerrank test. Also, shows the previous history which can be tracked. Cons during hackerrank tests the candidates are detected for Plagiarism but the signals or pattern isn't justifiable. Review Source PS Puja S. Global Lead Tech Recruiter Food & Beverages Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "HackerRank test review" November 17, 2025 5.0 Pros Ease of use, customer service and security will be my top positive points for using Hackerrank over any other tool. Cons Right now Hackerrank is the best tool out there. The only thing I can think of is that We can use more predetermined tests Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Problem Setter Intern Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "HackerRank Assessment Platform" June 15, 2023 5.0 Pros The primary advantage is that it is entirely gratis - it includes a large library containing all key code challenges from major firms. It provides a fantastic environment for coding practise. Its online examinations for businesses are also particularly appealing since they provide a familiar coding environment. Cons Opportunities, while the site allows you to compete for any employment challenge, it does not give any. However, a decent profile page with badges may inform any techie how skilled you are at coding and ideas. Review Source Yash P. Project Engineer E-Learning Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Trusted Review" July 25, 2024 5.0 Pros Skill Development: By practice and exposure to various problem kinds, coding abilities can be improved. Vast Variety of Challenges: Provides issues in a number of areas, including as databases, artificial intelligence, data structures, algorithms, and more. Cons Occasional Lag: The platform can sometimes be slow or unresponsive, particularly during peak usage times. Review Source AR Aniirudh R. Graduate Research Assistant Research Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "HackerRank has the most comprehensive coding practice problem library - Godsend for aspiring coders" November 1, 2022 5.0 Pros The biggest pro is that it is absolutely free - it has a big library that consists of all major coding questions of major companies. It offers a very nice platform to practice coding.Its online assessments for companies are also very nice as it offers a familiar coding environment Cons The questions navigation bar on the side needs to be more intuitive with the remaining time a bit bigger Review Source Somnath R. Secretary Used the software for: 2+ years ### "The best site to learn about data structures and algorithms" October 12, 2017 5.0 Pros Questions are present for all level of candidates. They are also sorted according to various categories for easy access. Also, the competitions are good way to get to know one's current skill level with respect to coders all over the world. Cons Sometimes, the editorials are not easy to understand. Other than that, the site is amazing and is of great help to students and job seekers, particularly. Review Source Dilraj S. Sr. Software Developer Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Awesome website for practising coding skills" February 23, 2020 5.0 Overall its great for every kind of programmer with so many problems and challenges for them to practice. The platform can also be used for hiring programmers who do well in the online challenges and have good overall rank in HackerRank. Pros Great website for learning and building upon you software coding skills. The IDE's support almost all the languages and the coding problems range from beginner to advanced levels. Its a must for any programmer who wants to enhance his competitive programming skills. Cons Not much to dislike about the website, since there is almost everything for each level of programmers ranging from beginners to advanced, including problems from easy to very complex. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Systems Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Minimalistic assessment & practice tool for coders" February 13, 2022 5.0 Pros Supports multiple programming languages, User interface is minimal and thus allows users to focus on the code problem, Allows to enter custom test cases. Cons No major cons but the community is not much active on hackerrank as compared to leetcode. Review Source Artem V. Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "If you wish to learn a new skill then "HackerRank"" March 17, 2018 5.0 As a software engineer I have to keep my self updated with new programming language with trend and I can simply learn it from HackerRank also it's coding challenge is useful as well. Pros HackerRank has large number of tutorials available for different languages and technologies. Also it has a good number of challenging questions set to test our skill. I have learnt many things from HackerRank. Cons The only thing I dislike about HackerRank is it's online compiler for some languages it is outdated because during one competition I wasted some time to learn that the compiler has no library file which I was trying to use. Though I got support and resolved my problem. Review Source CJ Chirag J. Developer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "A great platform to practice coding" September 30, 2018 5.0 The platform has good variety and number of problems to practice which are at the same time very competetive Pros The HackerRank platform supports almost all the programming languages that you can imagine. The interface is really neat and code editor has basic features Cons Formatting code in certain languages is a nightmare, especially in python if you have not setup the editor configuration correctly. Review Source AA Anthony A. Owner Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Great site to keep your skills up" April 18, 2019 5.0 I really enjoy HackerRank. I like how it's a go at your own pace learning tool with down negative side effects to use. I suggest you use it if you are looking to learn, get new ideas, or just keep up skills in languages you don't often use. Pros I like that it is free of course, but also that you are able to keep your skills up on languages you do not use regularly, or give yourself new challenges and ideas. Also, in terms of ease of use, the site works great. It's easy to use, and easy to learn how to program in. Sometimes they'll even email you a challenge. Such a great site! Cons I don't really see cons in this software. I haven't had anything go wrong with the site. Review Source Ilay E. NOC Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Helped alot preparing to interviews" June 25, 2018 4.0 Pros Large amount of exercises and code feedbacks. Gamification environment, earning points and leveling up. Cons Too many notifications regarding every single update and new challenge uploaded. The review after submitting a challenge lacks information and assistance. Review Source Similar Products Featured ## Send me user reviews about this product ### Fill out the form and we'll send a list of the top-rated software based on real user reviews directly to your inbox.