hackerearth helping a startup hire developers - the practo case study
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A startup's hiring requirement are probably the hardest ones to satisfy. Find out how Practo, a health case startup based out of India filled it's tech hiring requirement in record time using HackerEarthTRANSCRIPT
Helping a startup findtech talentThe Practo Case Study
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The HackerEarth Hiring Challenge
•A programming challenge to help shortlist greatprogrammers
•Post challenge, HackerEarth’s proprietary matching engine helps shortlist eligible candidates who’ve per-formed well
•A small shortlist of candidates is shared with the com-pany, hence saving them a lot of time
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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
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• 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
Practo’s requirement
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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
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• 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
The Practo hiring challenge
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• Number of participating developers
• Number of developers who got all answers right
• Total number of submissions
• Total correct compilations
• Candidates with distinction marks
Practo hiring challenge in numbers
476
12
2625
2242
25
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HackerEarth filtered 25 top candidates from476 candidates, with no manual effort
Filtering out the best talent
5%
95%
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Find realinformation aboutshortlisted candidatesusing theirdeveloper profile
The Practo hiring challenge
Find multilingual programmers who took your test
Language insights
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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
