Are there actual licensed engineering professionals (ie electrical, mechanical) who resort to some made up ranks to separate themselves from the herd and use puzzles to judge the skillset of a potential employee? How does this work in industries other than software? Just genuinely curious here.

Is "Show HN" an appropriate category for a link to a TechCruch coverage? (Unless you are the creator of TechCrunch... and expect us learn about it from this post.)

Is it wrong that I have zero interest in a new job, but want to sign up for a ready supply of interesting puzzles?

I love the general principle of this and applies to other professions.

I work in finance and accounting and it's rare for someone's technical skills to be evaluated in an interview.

The problem with that is that the profession becomes overrun with people who have zero ability to actually get things done in an efficient manner.

Not everyone need to be a coder, but most professionals do need to know how to leverage machines to automate their workflow and generate deeper insights.

If I were hiring people in my field (finance/accounting) I would love to use something like this to make sure a candidate can accomplish some basic analytic tasks and workflow automation tasks.

Looks like Uber and VMware are already using this product. Can anyone from those teams tell us about their experience?

It would be really nice if something like this existed for internships - some of the companies listed (like Uber) seem to be extraordinarily hard to get a response from if you don't go to a target school.

While I cannot vouch for whether or not this will land you an interview, HackerRank was very useful in preparing for interviews.

Also, the team is great - I signed up a long time ago and had some performance feedback for Vivek. They promptly implemented the change within a day. I haven't used it recently, but at the very least you'll get something out of it if you need practice.

Canadian companies too?

*guarantees an interview call after a coding challenge

Sorry, Hacker Rank can't make me guarantee anything.

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