Vivek Ravisankar of HackerRank: 5 Ways To Attract & Retain Top Talent

It’s important to understand all of your inputs, the systems you have in place, and your outputs. If you do so, the outcome — your score — will take care of itself.

As a part of my HR Strategy Series, I’m talking to top experts in the field to teach prospects what hiring managers are actually looking for, while also supporting business leaders in their hiring and retention strategies. Today I had the pleasure of talking with Vivek Ravisankar.

Vivek Ravisankar is the CEO and Co-founder of HackerRank, a technology hiring platform that is the standard for assessing developer skills for over 2,600+ companies around the world. HackerRank is accelerating the world’s innovation by transforming the developer hiring process to be based on skill instead of pedigree.

Thank you so much for doing this with us! First, please tell us what brought you to this specific career path?

The idea for the company, which later became HackerRank, started with my own experience as a developer at Amazon. I conducted a lot of tech interviews but realized there had to be a better and more efficient way to find candidates. First, I found that resumes don’t correlate to…