Introduction to HackerRank Engage

HackerRank Engage is a platform that helps companies strengthen their tech brand and attract top-tier developers through developer-focused events. It enables organizations to source candidates from multiple channels, build relationships, and maintain an active talent pipeline all within a single platform.

At the same time, developers evaluate potential employers, focusing on factors such as the types of problems companies are solving, the technologies they use, and their overall value proposition.

Key benefits

Engage offers the following benefits:

• Leverage AI for effortless event setup: Use AI to build personalized events that align with your hiring goals.

  • Receive auto-generated event artifacts that you can customize later.

• Source candidates from multiple channels: Source relevant candidates for your event by leveraging multiple sourcing methods.

  • Discover candidates from HackerRank’s candidate database.

  • Promote your event to the HackerRank Community.

• Showcase your company in the best light: Highlight your company through immersive and interactive event elements:

  • Create customized microsites to showcase jobs or hackathons.

  • Use email sequences to share all the relevant information about your innovations.

  • Use HackerRank Community promotions to get relevant candidates for your requirements.

  • Offer real-world challenges that emulate on-the-job coding.

Sample use cases

HackerRank Engage supports a range of use cases across hiring and candidate engagement. The following are a few use cases:

Create a pre-vetted talent pool

Purpose: Build a pre-vetted pool of candidates with validated skills that can be accessed when an active requisition arises.

Run coding challenges for multiple similar roles

Purpose: Launch coding challenges to quickly fill open positions when a talent pool is not readily available.

Host internal Hackathons to ignite new product ideas

Purpose: Engage employees to develop new product ideas through internal hackathons.

Engage packages

HackerRank Engage offers two package options to meet your event needs:

Standard offering

The Standard package is a do-it-yourself (DIY) solution that allows you to independently set up and run events without support from the HackerRank team. This option is ideal if you have your own candidate pool and a defined outreach strategy.

To use the Standard offering, you must have:

• Access to the Engage platform.

• A sufficient number of attempts to host and manage your events.

Managed offering

The Managed package includes all features of the Standard offering, along with additional support and services to help you run a successful event. You can choose from the following services based on your specific requirements:

• Custom content creation

  • Higher scale for coding questions

  • Higher scale for project questions

• Project management support

  • Publishing a consolidated event post on HackerRank’s social channels

• Custom microsite modifications

• Weekend support

The following timeline outlines the key activities and sets expectations FOR the Managed offering of Engage:

How-to guides

The following articles will help you get started with Engage:

• Create an Event

• Set Up a Microsite

• Source and Manage Candidates for Event

• Set Up Emails

• Set Up the Event Challenge

• View Event Statistics

• End Your Event on a High Note with Leaderboard

Get in touch

Interested in using Engage or want to learn more?

Contact us at engage-support@hackerrank.com.

You will receive a response within one business day.