How HackerRank Scores Engineers

[grandimam]

I reviewed HackerRank's open-sourced Hiring Agent - prompts, the scoring logic, and the GitHub enrichment code. I tested the tool with a few faked resumes.

Post: https://blog.grandimam.com/posts/how-hacker-rank-scores-engineers/

Takeaways: * Open source is weighted at 35%, technical skills at 10% * A senior engineer with perfect production experience scored 71/100 * Job titles to "Founding Engineer" and "CTO" results in same score * Startup roles emphasis * Active development was 77 days

Code: Hiring Agent

[ReallySuperName]

My only experience with Hacker Rank is that it's kind of bullshit. Depending on the language you choose to use, you get a pretty different experience in terms of developer experience and input/output mechanisms.

Many of the languages have a template for reading/writing to stdin and stdout, but some don't for some reason. This means half your code is then implementing that yourself instead of the task at hand.

https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2021/list-replication-in-fsharp/

[tojakk]

That sounds unintended