Q&A With HackerRank Employees

Fair. Can be overwhelming if you don't manage it yourself. Company does not do a ton to promote balance.

There is a strong culture of promoting from within based on performance, but there is also a strong culture of "purchasing" free agents from the sales side especially. There isn't any formal process or structure around promotions today.

Flex vacation.

No set process or structure around raises at HackerRank, and it hasn't been addressed for the coming year. Past experience has shown that high performers are extremely well taken care of, particularly in sales.

Fast. Almost too fast. Slowing down might actually do the company some good.

The people are pretty great. It's a place you can be yourself, and the team will work together -- we are all in it together.

It depends on the role you want. Focus on being ambitious, displaying a pension for customer delight, and on being data driven.

Organized, logical, very hard working, and curious people succeed at HackerRank. This is not a place for those who don't think they have anything to learn or offer the world other than "experience" and "their way".

Needs improvement. If things are tracked, its not obvious where. Management seems to listen - but in a disoriented and disorganized way. The company should invest in its culture and really focus on improving internally in the coming year.

Not difficult at all.

The space is growing in terms of competition, and the sale is fairly technical given the engineering stakeholders involved.

Last 3 were a San Jose Sharks game with a rented suite, A's game with a pre-game bbq, and a winery / rented venue for an off-site with some games (frisbee, corn-hole, etc).

Geographic product and sales distributed teams can be a challenge at all levels of the organization.

Positive. People like to be here, they work hard, and the company is trending in the right direction.

Decent and improving. Ratios could probably be shared by HR - but we've offices in 3 countries, customers in hundreds, a strong women in leadership positions in both our Bangalore and US offices, and we constantly evaluate skill over pedigree (or homogeneity which has helped improve diversity just by itself.

Open floor layout

100% benefits, competitive stock options with minimal dilution, flex vacation and work hours, free lunch every day, uber expenses for travel to and from work, and so many more...

Very attractive, with a lot of over performance incentives. Management up to CFO is highly pro-sales and wants to help reps make money.

Energy is mid-level. Culture of pounding the phones hasn't really blossomed. People seem to prefer to gravitate to a quiet space for call making rather than be on the floor. Team is very close, though, and always willing to help one another out. Driven and passionate is almost everyone on the team. Office work hours are early - typically 7 or 8am, with everybody (quite literally save maybe 1 or 2 people) gone by 4pm. Enterprise reps are remote.

Team is young, but hungry. Consistency is still a bit of a work in progress for some, but overall the teams are hitting their numbers and many reps are over-achieving. Compensation plans are very attractive, and Sales leadership respects the people and works hard to make them money, and make them successful.

Corporate feeling, and hierarchical - but they know what they are doing.