April 2024 Release Notes

Prepare for an exciting leap forward with HackerRank's latest updates! Our committed team has been hard at work, delivering enhanced features and quick bug fixes to elevate your experience to new heights. Whether you're ready to push boundaries or need guidance through these enhancements, our stellar support team is here to assist you every step of the way. Just reach out to us at support@hackerrank.com, and let the journey begin!

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Enhanced Test Creation Process

It’s now easier and faster for you to launch and maintain role-based assessments. With the new test creation experience, you can find and launch HackerRank’s recommended assessments in minutes, reduce the time you spend on test maintenance, and customize assessments to your unique needs.

What’s New? 

• Find roles with our improved search experience

• Replace leaked questions in a test with leakage-protected skill bundles

• Customize sections with library questions and custom questions

• Change your test’s duration

• Reorder assessment sections

Learn more here📄 HackerRank Certified Assessments

New Database Question Creation UI

Assess candidates' database skills using improved database question creation workflow. 

What's New?

• Ability to upload large CSV and schema files (up to 10MB)

• Intuitive interface for creating database questions across MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MS SQL and DB2

Learn more here📄 Creating a Database Engineer Question

New Additions to Centralized Test Settings

Centralized test settings now allow you to set defaults for the following:

• AI plagiarism detection 

• Image analysis 

• Email invitation subject line 

• Confirmation email content  

You now have the ability to enforce these default values across all tests in your account.

Learn more here📄 Centralized Test Settings

Updates to Summary Reports

The updated summary reports now offer enhanced readability and better responsiveness across all screen sizes.

What’s New? 

• Proctoring images displayed with a player view, allowing you to expand and view each image individually.

• Seek function within the player view for navigation through proctoring images.

• Summary report can now be opened in a new tab. 

• Improved responsiveness of the summary report

Learn more here📄 Viewing a Candidate's Test Summary Report

Get Notified about Blocked Domains on IDE

Users will be notified proactively about blocked domains within the IDE environment. This feature provides clear identification of which domains need to be safelisted to ensure a seamless interaction with the IDE.

What’s New? 

• Notifications for blocked domains encountered within the IDE across 

  • Screen

  • Question Creation

  • Reports

• Clear identification of domains which need to be safelisted 

Learn more here📄 Safelist / Whitelist URLs for HackerRank

Network Indicator in IDE

Network indicator in the IDE alerts users of sub-optimal network conditions, empowering them to swiftly resolve connectivity issues. This ensures uninterrupted experiences during assessment, interviews and creating questions. 

Learn more here.

Network Indicator While Creating Questions

Network Indicator In Screen

Network Indicator in Reports

Reset Code to Previous Version

Elevate the candidate’s coding experience with the code reset option, empowering them to seamlessly revert to the initial state or navigate through different versions of their code.

What's New?

• Easy code restoration to the initial state or previous versions

• Efficient error recovery by reverting to an earlier working state

• Track code revisions, evaluate scores, and select the perfect version for your candidate's success.

Copy-Paste Tracking for Sentence Completion and Subjective Questions

Monitor candidates' copy-pasting activities during assessments with our expanded copy-paste tracking capabilities.

Upgraded Bulk Upload Functionality for Multiple Choice and Sentence Completion Questions

New bulk upload features improve the creation process for MCQs and Sentence completion questions.

What's New?

• Bulk upload Sentence Completion and MCQs in XLSX format

• Ability to add images to Sentence Completion and MCQs using the XLSX format

Learn more here📄 How to Bulk Upload MCQ and Sentence Completion Questions

Interviews

Protection of Candidate’s Information on Zoom

HackerRank ensures data confidentiality by encrypting and securely masking PII (Personally Identifiable Information) transmitted to Zoom. Users can now opt to have Interviewer and Candidate names masked in the Zoom video recordings. The candidate’s name is displayed as “Candidate” and Interviewer name is displayed as ‘Interviewer.’ Learn more.

Compatibility Check for Interviews

Conduct a system compatibility check, assessing audio/video permissions, internet strength, and other key parameters. This proactive measure ensures a smooth experience for interviewers and candidates alike, allowing you to focus on the interview itself without technical disruptions.

Learn more here.

Admin

Flexible User Roles

This new capability allows admins to customize their user roles with entitlements suited to their organization's needs. Give each user the right level of access based on your organization's specific needs.

Note: This is an opt in feature. You can reach out to your account manager or HackerRank support (support@hackerrank.com) to enable it. 

What's New?

• Modify User Roles: Admins can adjust up to 30 entitlements at the user role level, which will adjust the capabilities of all users with that user role.

• Modify Individual Users: Admins can adjust those same entitlements on specific users, to further customize the capabilities beyond their user role definition.

Learn more here📄 Flexible User Roles

Integrations

Improved Experience for Integration Settings Page

Manage and configure integrations with an improved user experience, focusing on usability and accessibility.

The new changes include:

• Active integrations displayed more visibly

• Significantly reduced page load times 

• Logging for integration token generation and deletion

To get a feel of the new Integrations page for Lever (as an example), see the Lever Configuration guide.

New Questions Added  to the HackerRank Library

New Product: SkillUp

SkillUp assists organizations to mobilize their internal talent and future proof their technical teams by upskilling them to be GenAI ready. SkillUp comprises two main portals: Employee Portal and Employer Portal.

Learn more here.

Employee Portal:

• Role Mastery Roadmap: Features competency radar for skill mapping and a curated Learning Plan for development.

• Skills Directory: Catalogs 20 skills across various categories including AI & ML, Software Engineering, Cloud among others, with curated learning resources and AI support.

• Roles Directory: Lists 19 roles across various categories including AI & ML, Software Engineering, Cloud among others, detailing pre-requisite skills, role readiness, and certifications.

• Skill Profile: Allows developers to craft detailed bios, link professional profiles, and display skill badges and role certifications.

• AI Assistant: Provides socratic tutoring for enhanced learning during practice assessments.

Employer Portal:

• Company Overview: A dashboard that outlines certified developer strength, upskilling trends and skills distribution across the organization.

• Talent Directory: Filters and organizes developer talent by verified skills.

• Assign Tasks: Aids in the assignment of role certifications and skill badges for developer growth.

• Administrative Tools: Streamlines the process for inviting and onboarding new employees, with an emphasis on role-specific categorization.

New Product: Engage

Engage helps you promote your tech brand to developers in the language they understand – coding events & hackathons. With its AI-driven technology, Engage enables organizations to:

• Attract tech talent: Engage's AI co-pilot sets up event microsites to pull in registrations by highlighting your tech brand.

• Host real-world challenges: Engage provides challenges that closely resemble the industry problems developers intend to solve.

• Manage candidate relationships: Engage ensures that candidates are kept warm through meaningful and personalized engagements.

To understand more about the Engage product, see the Engage support article:📄 HackerRank Engage