Minimize bias within your recruiting process.
Embed D&I best practices into your tech hiring process, drive tangible change, and cultivate a more diverse and innovative workplace.
HackerRank offers the experience-backed knowledge, platform, and partnerships
to integrate D&I into your tech hiring process enabling you to go from forward-thinker to forward-doer.
Overcoming Bias in Diversity & Inclusion
Sourcing diverse candidates is the first step in creating a diverse and inclusive workforce.
But unconscious bias can inadvertently weed out strong candidates.
The resume bias
Eliminate resume bias
The resume bias
Candidate information—like name, email, school, employment gaps, and more—can unconsciously bias decisions in resume review.
Eliminate resume bias
Skills-based hiring utilizes our Diversity and Inclusion center which easily integrates D&I best practices into your process. Identify candidates that are the best-fit based on proven skill, eliminating unconscious bias.
Diversity & Inclusion Playbook with HackerRank
Build a diverse candidate pipeline
Screen a wider, more diverse pool of candidates with automated technical skill assessments.
Empower hiring teams to make better decisions with candidate skills data.
- Gender
- Race
- Ethnicity
- LGBTQ+
- Veterans
- Age
- Non-Traditional Background
- Returnships
Comply with EEOC and OFCCP guidelines
Generate assessments from over 3100 questions with items that are drafted, reviewed, revised and field tested for validity, reliability, and fairness.
HackerRank adopted content validity strategy to ensure Uniform Guidelines and performs Adverse Impact analysis to assess test fairness.
Root out unconscious bias programmatically
Hide candidate Personally Identifiable Information (PII) like name, email, and gender in the screening and interviewing stages.
Conceal PII in CodeScreen and CodePair candidate reports to ensure unbiased evaluation.
Make pair programming sessions anonymous by removing names and disabling audio and video chat.
Develop an inclusive interview experience
Empower candidates with disabilities to showcase their skills. Provide additional time accommodations during assessments and projects on a case–by–case basis for candidates with special needs.
Learn more about the diversity and inclusion leaders using HackerRank for tech hiring
“HackerRank allowed me and my team to see quantitatively that Adriana was the right person for the job. There was a clear demonstration and data–backed argument that she possessed the skills we were hiring for, despite what was on her resume.”
Mother of two
lands job at Randstad
after 14 year break
“Job seekers who are currently unemployed or lack traditional experience, and have worked on some great projects, can showcase their skills with a HackerRank challenge.”
