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HackerRank Blog
Company blog · blog.hackerrank.comcareerprogramming
HackerRank Blog is the company blog at blog.hackerrank.com, writing about career and programming. Since 2012, 50 different Hacker News readers have linked it 98 times, most often “Which Country Would Win in the Programming Olympics?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-05, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (18) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this company blog for its developer survey and data posts, on topics such as developer gender ratios and language preferences by country, plus pieces on coding interviews and COBOL. Commenters cite these as supporting data.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 18 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
HackerRank is the market-leading skills-based coding test and interview solution for hiring developers. Start hiring tech talent from anywhere!
Most-linked posts?
- Which Country Would Win in the Programming Olympics?6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2016-08-30
- Which Countries Have the Most Female Developers?5 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2017-09-13
- Which Universities Have the Best Coders in the World?5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2016-12-07
- Which Country Would Win in the Programming Olympics? (2016)4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2017-05-04
- Programming languages in coding interviews ranked3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-08-03
- The Inevitable return of Cobol2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-07-06
- The Strange Politics of the “Full-Stack Developer”2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-10-25
- Singapore, Poland and Finland Are Top Places to Open an Engg Office2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-04-06
- Solving 20 Practice Challenges Improves Your Interview Pass Rate by 50%2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-09-27
- HealthTap shipped Dr.AI in 4 months b/c they weren't wasting time on interviews2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-02-23
What Hacker News says?
Hiring, by definition, is mostly discrimination. Otherwise, people would just hire the first person you received a resume from who had the solid qualifications and experience you needed. But no...of course that's not what happens. Managers go through the Kabuki dance with the potential employee just trying to find a small "chink in the armor" to quickly disqualify them. It's called the "initial screen" of course, an…
Comment linking /unlocking-trapped-engineers/
on “Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles”Submitted For anyone who has been turned down by 38 companies as a story · 247 points
HN discussionHealthTap | Palo Alto, CA | Talent Lead, Growth | Full-time, onsite, VISA, https://www.healthtap.com/ I'm the first engineer on the growth team at HealthTap, where I’m responsible for scaling the world’s first global health practice. What makes me proud is that we’ve served more more than 250 million people and saved 24,000 lives over six years! We’re looking to hire a Talent Lead to build out a hiring machine to id…
Comment linking /healthtap-builds-a-skills-based-hiring-growth-machine-with-hackerrank/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2017)”Submitted Three teen sisters who win medals in coding competitions as a story · 222 points
HN discussionYou know, if truth be told, we really haven't come very far. You'd probably be surprised at just how well a modern COBOL system can operate. ( http://blog.hackerrank.com/the-inevitable-return-of-cobol/ ) In fact, in many ways we've made things worse because not only does the sand keep shifting, there is now way too much sand. Young people come into the field and they want to make their mark. So we are constantly goi…
Comment linking /the-inevitable-return-of-cobol/
on “Reflections of an “Old” Programmer”Submitted The Immutability of Math and How Almost Everything Else Will Pass as a story · 96 points
HN discussionHackerrank begs to differ https://blog.hackerrank.com/which-country-would-win-in-the-p... Again, there are plenty of US tech companies in Eastern Europe.
Comment linking /which-country-would-win-in-the-programming-olympics/
on “Tech compensation in 2021”Submitted The Risky Eclipse of Statisticians as a story · 43 points
HN discussion> They are no smarter than BA's original British engineers, but with decades less experience on those systems Wow you really believe Poland is some third world country where we ride horses to our farms? They have experience, in some ways Poland is way ahead of UK in digitalization of many services. In great part because of thriving economy, great schools and excellent developers. Poland has some of the best programm…
Comment linking /which-country-would-win-in-the-programming-olympics/
on “British Airways: All flights cancelled amid IT crash”Submitted The Inevitable return of Cobol as a story · 37 points
HN discussionDefinitely is not 'nobody really cares'. Adding vacation time (which is standard not only in IT) of 5 weeks plus average sicktime (let's assume two weeks in a year) that's a big paid difference. And as to the basecamp package being typical in SV: I concluded from many posts in this conversation differently. PPP adjusted for cost of living, I suspect 20% lower on average than yours. Taking into account healthcare (pr…
Comment linking /which-country-would-win-in-the-programming-olympics/
on “Basecamp Employee Handbook”Submitted Why Many Computer Science Programs Are Stagnating as a story · 32 points
HN discussionI have no idea why people who otherwise are against practices like stack ranking think that companies like "Hacker"Rank which assign you a score based on a set of simplistic algorithm are a good idea. If you are a manager and your company uses HackerRank as a hiring filter, I request you to take a good, hard second look at it – specially if you lament that you are unable to find any developers. These companies make…
Comment linking /recap-how-mimino-solved-78-project-euler-problems-in-under-24-hours/
on “Cracking the Coding Interview Tutorial”Submitted The Inevitable Return of COBOL as a story · 23 points
HN discussionSome background on this: http://blog.hackerrank.com/introducing-cracking-the-coding-i...
Comment linking /introducing-cracking-the-coding-interview-tutorial-new-study-on-interview-practice/
on “Cracking the Coding Interview Tutorial”Submitted Quora Haqathon results as a story · 16 points
HN discussionThat's nonsense. It is well-known that Indian women do better in the tech industry than their American counterparts. See articles below. https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-professional/2015/jun/2... https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/engineering-... https://www.wired.com/2014/08/silicon-valley-sexism/ https://blog.hackerrank.com/which-countries-have-the-most-sk... Developers in India are 3-times more…
Comment linking /which-countries-have-the-most-skilled-female-developers/
on “IBM Names Arvind Krishna CEO”Submitted Which Country Would Win in the Programming Olympics? as a story · 14 points
HN discussionJust check this out "Sri Lanka comes in at number one in its preference for Java" source : https://blog.hackerrank.com/which-country-would-win-in-the-p...
Comment linking /which-country-would-win-in-the-programming-olympics/
on “Ballerina, a language with structural type system”Submitted War, Passion and the Origin of Computer Societies as a story · 13 points
HN discussionRight on! Technology firms in India have a better female to male staff ratio than the tech giants of Silicon Valley [1]. India has a much better male-to-female ratio compared with the U.S. Engineering male-female ratio in India is 1.96 as compared with 4.61 in the U.S. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-professional/2015/jun/2... [2] https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/engineering-... What India Ca…
Comment linking /which-countries-have-the-most-skilled-female-developers/
on “Infosys asked HR not to hire 'Indian-origin candidates', 'women with children'”Submitted Singapore, Poland and Finland Are Top Places to Open an Engg Office as a story · 11 points
HN discussionThere isn't a specific mailing list. However you can sign up for a one off webinar that will go into a lot of detail on the hiring manager flow. It's at the bottom of the launch blog post. https://blog.hackerrank.com/hackerrank-projects-supports-dat...
Comment linking /hackerrank-projects-supports-data-science-skills
on “Show HN: Real world (Jupyter notebook embed) way to assess data scientists”Submitted Which Country Would Win in the Programming Olympics? as a story · 11 points
HN discussionRelated: Why women in Stem may be better off working in India and Latin America: https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-professional/2015/jun/2... What India Can Teach Silicon Valley About Its Gender Problem: https://www.wired.com/2014/08/silicon-valley-sexism/ India and Italy have the highest percentage of female developers: https://blog.hackerrank.com/which-countries-have-the-most-sk...
Comment linking /which-countries-have-the-most-skilled-female-developers/
on “Rocket woman: How to cook curry and get a spacecraft into Mars orbit”Submitted Unlocking Trapped Engineers as a story · 10 points
HN discussionThese numbers from hackerrank say that 14% of American devs are women, but 23% of Indian devs. Which puts Google right in between those two numbers like we expect. https://blog.hackerrank.com/which-countries-have-the-most-sk...
Comment linking /which-countries-have-the-most-skilled-female-developers/
on “Sex differences”Submitted The Dark Side of Recruiting Pre-Internet as a story · 9 points
HN discussionHere are the facts about women in India: Technology firms in India have a better female to male staff ratio than the tech giants of Silicon Valley [1]. India has a much better male-to-female ratio compared with the U.S. Engineering male-female ratio in India is 1.96 as compared with 4.61 in the U.S. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-professional/2015/jun/2... [2] https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blo…
Comment linking /which-countries-have-the-most-skilled-female-developers/
on “India’s caste system limits diversity in science”Submitted HealthTap shipped Dr.AI in 4 months b/c they weren't wasting time on interviews as a story · 8 points
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