Conducting Events with Projects Questions

Overview

Container-based real-world Project questions are great at testing a candidate’s knowledge of frameworks and skills in building real applications. Candidates get access to an IDE that provides features similar to development-level IDE. 

Tests with Front End, Back End, Full-Stack, Data Science, and DevOps questions will have this experience.

However, containers introduce some scaling limitations at a customer company level. These limitations are important to provide a good candidate experience.

The scaling limitation for each question type is mentioned in the following table.  

Inviting Candidates in Bulk for Projects Tests

• If you expect your candidates to login in a staggered manner, you can go ahead and invite all the candidates. There should not be any negative candidate experience.
• If you expect all the candidates to log in at once or if your test starts at a particular time:
  • Candidates might see a prompt to wait for some time when they reach the threshold mentioned in the table above. (Check candidate experience section for more details)
  • To mitigate this situation, it is recommended that you invite candidates in batches
    
• If inviting candidates in batches is not an option, reach out to your customer success manager or write to us at support@hackerrank.com for additional support and options.
  
• If you expect more candidates than the given limit to take the test in parallel, reach out to us through support@hackerrank.com to inquire about temporary increases in capacity to support your event.

Candidate Experience in Events with Projects Tests

1. The first 30 candidates will be provisioned servers for the test and will be able to start the test. In the case of the DevOps questions, the number is 20.
2. All remaining candidates will see a prompt saying, “We are seeing unusually high traffic. We are trying to provision a server for your test. Try again after the countdown below.” They will see a timer for a minute before they can retry logging into the test.
3. After the first minute, the next set of candidates will be provisioned servers, and so on. 
4. If the candidates in a session exceed the limit, the first set of candidates will be logged in to the test, and the next set of candidates will see an error: “Our servers are at capacity. Please try to take this test after some time”. As existing candidates finish their attempts, new candidates will be allowed to log into the test.