HackerEarth helping a startup hire developers - The Practo Case Study
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The document presents a case study of Practo's collaboration with Hackerearth to efficiently find qualified backend engineers using a programming challenge. Hackerearth employed an algorithmic challenge with 476 participants to filter candidates, resulting in a successful matching of talent that fit over 80% with the roles offered. The process highlighted the effectiveness of Hackerearth's tools in saving time and ensuring high-quality hires for startups.
HackerEarth helping a startup hire developers - The Practo Case Study
- 1. Helping a startup find tech talent The Practo Case Study HackerEarth
- 2. The HackerEarth Hiring Challenge •A programming challenge to help shortlist great programmers •Post challenge, HackerEarth’s proprietary matching engine helps shortlist eligible candidates who’ve per-formed HackerEarth well •A small shortlist of candidates is shared with the com-pany, hence saving them a lot of time
- 3. HackerEarth About Practo • Practo came to HackerEarth looking to hire talented back end engineers • Practo is a company in the healthcare space • They’re the company behind Practo Ray, an online medical practice management software • The software has over 100000 doctors listed and over 30000 monthly appointments
- 4. Practo’s requirement • Strong programming skills on any backend language • Strong computer science basics, databases,OOP concepts • Knowledge and interest in open source • Preferably conversant with Nginx configurationand NoSQL solutions HackerEarth
- 5. HackerEarth The Problem • Finding backend engineers of a very high calibre • Making sure that they were current with latest technologies • Find engineers conversant and passionate about open source technologies • Selling the prospect of working at a startup to in demand talent
- 6. The Practo hiring challenge • An algorithmic programming challenge • 5 algorithmic problems to be solved a duration of 4 hours • Language wasn’t a constraint; any language could be used to solved the problems • Test was designed to evaluate computer sciencebasics, databases, OOP concepts knowledge of participants HackerEarth
- 7. Practo hiring challenge in numbers • Number of participating developers • Number of developers who got all answers right • Total number of submissions • Total correct compilations • Candidates with distinction marks HackerEarth 476 12 2625 2242 25
- 8. Filtering out the best talent HackerEarth filtered 25 top candidates from476 candidates, with no manual effort HackerEarth 5% 95%
- 9. The Practo hiring challenge HackerEarth Find real information about shortlisted candidates using their developer profile
- 10. Language insights Find multilingual programmers who took your test
- 11. HackerEarth The Result “Finding a good developer is like looking for a needle in a hay-stack. By using HackerEarth, we have experienced greater than 80% fit between the candidates identified by the platform and the ones we offered a role at our company.” - Sri Karthik Sayana, Talent Acquisition at Practo, in an interview with TechCrunch
- 12. Hire for your startup using HackerEarth contact@HackerEarth.com HackerEarth