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HackerRank is rolling out Chakra, an AI agent that conducts coding interviews while candidates have access to AI tools, measuring not just whether they get the right answer but how they think and work with AI. The company claims this approach cuts cheating flags by 70-80% and consolidates a three-round hiring process into one interview.
- Chakra has already conducted 500,000+ interviews in beta with companies like Snowflake and Capgemini, and HackerRank is positioning it as the future of its business, comparing the shift to Apple moving from iPod to iPhone.
- Candidates can use AI during interviews without penalty, which HackerRank found actually reduces cheating because it removes the incentive to secretly use outside tools—suspicious activity dropped 70-80% compared to traditional assessments.
- The AI measures "AI fluency" (how well candidates prompt AI and evaluate its output) and reasoning process rather than just final answers, while HackerRank says humans retain final hiring decisions to avoid over-delegating to algorithms.
- Regulatory scrutiny of AI hiring tools is already happening (NYC requires bias audits), and while Ravisankar argues properly tuned AI is less biased than humans, automated systems can inherit biases from training data and criteria.