HackerRank, the Developer Skills Company, today shared details from last week’s successful AI Day 2025 event, which included an exclusive look at the company’s latest product innovations plus industry insights from HackerRank CEO Vivek Ravisankar, GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke and Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas.
From here, the team offered a look at five innovations built directly into the HackerRank platform. These updates include:
- Proctor mode – Like having a personal proctor for take-home assessments, HackerRank’s Proctor mode guides candidates through the process, enforces compliance and flags integrity violations – ensuring a fair and transparent evaluation. The update also includes session replay and integrity insights for hiring managers and talent teams to help further gain insights.
- AI interviewer – Designed to conduct first-round interviews, not just evaluate code correctness, HackerRank’s new AI Interviewer closely simulates a real interview experience, giving hints without revealing answers, adapting to the candidate’s skill level and asking follow-up questions to see how candidates think.
- Engage assistant – To help companies rediscover past candidates and build strong pipelines of qualified talent, HackerRank’s Engage AI Assistant automatically analyzes previous candidate profiles, matches them with current hiring needs and creates targeted marketing campaigns that include an on-brand microsite and developer-friendly email campaign.
- AI tutor – Designed to help developers improve skills, navigate learning paths and achieve certifications, HackerRank’s AI Tutor provides structured plans, delivers real-world challenges and gives step-by-step guidance without handing out answers.
- ASTRA benchmark – Built to assess AI models’ ability to perform complex tasks across the software development lifecycle, HackerRank’s ASTRA Benchmark measures correctness, consistency, efficiency, cost and communication. The live leaderboard is available at hackerrank.com/ai/astra.
Following HackerRank’s product announcements, Ravisankar joined GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke for a discussion about how continued innovation will augment the role of developers rather than replace them. It was here that Dohmke pointed out, “We will never run out of work because we will never run out of ideas.”
Textio, the Talent Optimization Platform that empowers HR leaders to build and retain high-performing teams, today unveiled at Transform the latest addition to its AI platform: Interview Feedback—which quickly creates clear, compliant, and skills-based assessments of candidates, so organizations stop losing money on poor-fit hires that don’t work out.
Interview Feedback helps you hire for the right skills and protect your organization from risk by:
- Structuring your hiring process with clear, skills-based candidate evaluations so you can avoid bad hires and high turnover.
- Giving teams AI tools built for HR by HR, so you can trust the output will replace subjective notes with more complete and objective documentation of a candidate’s skills and qualifications.
- Making sure new hires have the right skills for the job, so they perform better and stick around longer.
- Centralizing candidate assessments and interview feedback in one place to ensure fair hiring and reduce legal risk.
- Filling more open roles faster by connecting top candidates to other roles they might be a good fit for.
- Creating a better candidate experience and employer brand with a structured hiring process people trust.
“Hiring for the right skills and experience can make or break business performance—the stakes couldn’t be higher. Yet hiring teams often struggle to objectively evaluate candidates during interviews, forcing them to rely on gut instincts and simply hope for the best,” said Jensen Harris, co-founder and CEO of Textio. “With Interview Feedback, HR leaders finally have a clear, structured, and compliant way to assess candidates, ensuring hires are based on critical skills, reducing risk, and significantly driving performance.”
