HackerRank
HackerRank is a developer skills assessment platform used by over 2,500 companies to evaluate technical hiring candidates. The company has raised $103M, most recently a Series D in March 2022, and employs 201-500 people.
About
HackerRank provides coding tests and technical challenges that help recruiters screen software developers. Companies use its platform to standardize technical evaluations during hiring processes.
The company reached its Series D funding round in 2022 after a decade in operation. Its headcount falls in the 201-500 range, with engineering making up the largest department at 124 employees.
Founders and leadership
Engineering is the largest function with 124 employees, reflecting the technical nature of the product. The company has a median tenure of 2 years across its workforce.
The HackerRank org chart
Vivek Ravisankar (Co-founder & forward deployed CEO) leads 60 mapped leaders with 6 direct reports. Click +N to expand a team; names link to the person’s public profile.
Talent flow
HackerRank recruits heavily from open-source programs like GirlScript Summer of Code and Google Summer of Code. Alumni most frequently move to Google (41), Microsoft (28), and Meta (12).
Most common previous employers of HackerRank staff: GirlScript Summer of Code (12), GeeksforGeeks (10), Google (10), IBM (9), Google Summer of Code (9), Microsoft (8). Former HackerRank employees most often moved to Google (41), Microsoft (28), Meta (12), Salesforce (8), Atlassian (8), Amazon (7).
Alumni worth knowing
The HackerRank mafia
49 former employees have founded companies, including Velocity (422 staff), Lyriclious (249 staff), and Cube (240 staff).
51Saurav Swaroop, was Lead Engineer until 2020Nishant Kumar Singh, was HackerEarth Quiz Contest until 2019Abhinav Gupta, was Challenge Curator Consultant until 2020Dhaval Trivedi, was Software Engineer until 2015Oded Shekel, was Chief Product Officer until 2022Dan Somrack, was Senior Director of Product Management until 2021
Alagu Muthuraman, was Senior Engineer until 2011Omar Sadik, was Sales Development Representative EMEA until 2019
Grady Burnett, was President & COO until 2016
Kumar Divya Rajat, was External Content Curator until 2021
Mohan Sundar, was SDE until 2022
Hitesh Kumar, was Product Ops until 2022
Wilián Iralzabal, was Designer until 2015
Anil Gulecha, was Sr. Engineering Manager, HackerRank for Work until 2020
Rizwan Ansary, was Director of Product and Growth until 2016
Venkatesh Lahori, was Software Engineer Intern until 2025
Joseph W., was Enterprise Sales until 2019
Ishan Sharma, was Senior Software Engineer until 2025
Sheetal Kalra, was Product Manager II until 2022
Naman Malhotra, was Lead Engineer (YC S11) until 2021
Vedanshu Jain, was Senior Software Engineer until 2018
Lalit Kundu, was Summer Intern until 2014
Shashank Sharma, was Technical Product Manager until 2021
Luc Berlin, was Head of Demand Generation until 2015
Shivam Verma, was SDE Intern until 2022
Mahesh Tiyyagura, was VP, Engineering until 2019
Tapan Mittal, was Director of Product Management until 2023
Andrew Bare, was Senior Enterprise Account Executive until 2021
Edmund Eric Gah, was Software Engineer Intern until 2026
Shailesh Kumar, was Software Engineer II until 2018
Vishal Kothari, was Account Manager - India & APAC until 2025
James Voytek, was Enterprise Product Marketing Manager until 2025
Noah Lee, was Enterprise Sales Account Director-TOLA until 2019
Robat Das Orvi, was Campus Ambassador until 2018
Ayush Awasthi, was Campus Ambassador until 2016
Jawahar Malhotra, PhD, was EVP Technology until 2021
Brian Schneider, was Head of Talent Acquisition, HR, & Operations until 2014
Nicabed Gathaba, was Practitioner until 2020
Vijay Sairam, was Sr.Customer Support Representative until 2016
Kaushik Varanasi, was Summer Intern until 2015
Divith Selvam, was Software Engineer Intern until 2024
Arun Rao, was Web Developer until 2016
Tim Gardiner, was Vice President of Revenue Operations until 2024
Lauren Maroevich, was Product Manager until 2018
Shri Hari Sankaran, was Frontend Developer Intern until 2010
Kurt Wimmers, was Sr. Manager, Global Sales Enablement until 2019
Thejas Sreenivasu, was Software Engineer Intern until 2023
Rohith B V, was Software Developer until 2015
Saura Johnston, was Enterprise Account Executive until 2018
Shreya Srivastava, was Software Engineer until 2024Hiring now
Web traffic
Traffic mix: 48% direct, 26% search, 7% social, 0% paid.
Where the team actually sits
HackerRank people are concentrated in Karnataka, India (104), Uttar Pradesh, India (31), Maharashtra, India (23), Delhi, India (20). 3 offices on record.
Search footprint
HackerRank attracts about 88,730 organic search visits a month, traffic worth roughly $264K a month if bought through ads. It gained 4,999 ranking keywords and lost 4,026 in the last period.
What employees say
- Compensation
- 4.30 / 5
- Career opportunities
- 3.80 / 5
- Senior management
- 3.40 / 5
- Work-life balance
- 3.60 / 5
Frequently asked
HackerRank has raised $103M in total, most recently a Series D round in March 2022.
HackerRank was founded in 2012 by Vivek Ravisankar, Harishankaran K.
Vivek Ravisankar (Co-founder & forward deployed CEO) sits at the top of HackerRank's reporting structure, with 6 direct reports.
The most common previous employers of current HackerRank staff are GirlScript Summer of Code (12 people), GeeksforGeeks (10 people), Google (10 people).
Former HackerRank employees most often move to Google (41), Microsoft (28), Meta (12).
At least 49 companies have a founder who previously worked at HackerRank, including Velocity, Lyriclious - EdTech & IT Services, Cube.
HackerRank attracts about 88,730 organic search visits a month, worth roughly $264K a month in equivalent ad spend.
HackerRank staff are concentrated in Karnataka, India (104), Uttar Pradesh, India (31), Maharashtra, India (23).
Computed from 495 current and 923 former HackerRank profiles, as of September 2026. Source: Crustdata.
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