January 2024 Release Notes

Last updated: January 22, 2025

HackerRank consistently enhances our platform by implementing new features and addressing any issues through regular updates. HackerRank continually enhances its platform with improvements and fixes to serve you better. We have rolled out a series of new improvements and fixes this 24th January, 2024. If you require assistance with these changes, our team is prepared to support you. Feel free to reach out to us at support@hackerrank.com for any inquiries or assistance you may need.

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Improved Experience for Question Creation

Create questions faster than ever with our reinvented workflow designed to help you rapidly author high-quality, rich content. The new streamlined interfaces for common question types Coding, MCQs, Subjective, Diagram, Whiteboard, Sentence Completion, File Upload, Code Review, HTML/CSS/JS, and Approximate Solution.

What's New? 

  • Intuitive creation flows with fewer steps

  • Capability to insert and edit code blocks easily 

  • Languages are split into automatic stub generation and manual sub-groups for clarity

  • Ability to upload questions in bulk with images using Excel sheets and seamlessly edit them before publishing.

Visit Creating Custom Questions section to learn more.

Improved Experience for Creating Project Questions 

Access an improved experience for creating front-end, back-end, full stack, and mobile development questions. 

Key highlights:

  • Leverage Integrated IDEs for seamless code editing and testing

  • Clone projects quickly from a private GIT repository 

  • Configure scoring and IDE settings with ease from an intuitive interface

Visit📄 Creating Front-end, Back-end Full stack and Mobile Questions article to learn more.

Redesigned PDF Reports

PDF test reports download faster and now have a contemporary look that matches the platform interface.

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Visit📄 Downloading PDF and Excel Test Reportsarticle to learn more.

Watermarked Questions

Deter question leaks during assessments with our new watermarking capability. 

Key highlights:

  • Discourage candidates from taking screenshots by watermarking questions with candidate email addresses 

  • Reduce question leaks during large campus drives and events

Visit📄 Watermarking the Testsarticle to learn more.

Multiple Monitor Detection

To ensure fairness, you can detect the usage of multiple monitors by candidates during an assessment. 

Key highlights:

  • View a new indicator when  an external display is connected

  • Access additional signals around candidate behavior and potential plagiarism

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Visit📄 Multiple Monitor Detectionarticle to learn more.

New Image Analysis 

Our new Image Analysis feature analyzes a series of images captured during assessments and flags candidates for suspicious activity.   

Key highlights:

  • Analyzes candidate webcam feeds at different points during an assessment

  • Detects multiple faces or no face in frames

  • Categorizes images based on different suspicious activities (no face, secondary face, and so on.)

  • Shows severity and suspicion scores in reports

  • Details reasons for flagged images

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Visit Detect Suspicious Activity Using Image Analysis article to learn more.

Interviews

Hide Locked Tabs from Candidates During Interviews

Tabs that are locked by interviewers will now be hidden from candidates. This ensures that candidates are focused on the tasks given to them and not distracted by additional tabs, such as the ones that an interviewer might use later in the interview.

Changes to the experience:

  • No more messages such as, “This tab has been locked by the interviewer”

  • The interview tab is not visible to the candidate when the interviewer is exploring the library and still choosing the task

Visit📄 Hiding Locked Tabs in Interviewsarticle to learn more.

Company Admin

Enhanced Insights

We made backend changes to the test insights dashboard to make it faster and more accessible. This will allow us to make our reporting even stronger in the future.

With our new reporting, you’ll access:

  • Faster load times for graphs

  • An accessible user interface and graph style

  • Underlying data and rich insights into your HackerRank usage

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Visit📄 Account Insightsarticle to learn more.

Integrations

Greenhouse Enhancements

Interview scorecards can now be synced back to Greenhouse from HackerRank, once the interview instance has been updated. Additionally, when an Interviewer updates an Assessment Scorecard on HackerRank, this can be reflected on Greenhouse.

This enables a two-way integration that continually syncs between Greenhouse and HackerRank to update scorecards.

To learn more about the Greenhouse enhancements see the articles:📄 Greenhouse - HackerRank Integration Interviews User Guideand📄 Greenhouse - HackerRank Integration Tests User Guide

Workday Integration for Interviews

You can now leverage the HackerRank interview functionality within the Workday Applicant Tracking System. You can schedule the interview and view the scores on Workday without having to switch to the HackerRank platform.

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To learn more about the Workday Interview Integrations, see the articles:📄 Workday - HackerRank Interviews User Guide and📄 Workday - HackerRank Interviews Configuration Guide