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      HackerEarth Reviews

      3.7

      67% would recommend to a friend

      (246 total reviews)

      Sachin Gupta and Vivek Prakash

      81% approve of CEO

      59% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      3.8

      Career opportunities

      3.7

      Culture and values

      3.7

      Diversity and inclusion

      3.6

      Work/Life balance

      3.3

      Senior management

      3.3

      Compensation and benefits

      HackerEarth has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 246 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The HackerEarth employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

      Reviews by job title

      246 reviews
      1.0
      28 Sept 2018

      Dont join HackerEarth

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      - You might find really smart people to work with but smartness is relative. - There is no explicit hierarchy.

      Cons

      Having around 2 years of experience at HackerEarth, do believe that the following points are true. You can expect a response to this review from the CTO in which he will basically deny anything said here and that the things are perfectly fine with HE. Its high time for you to get out of your shell Mr. CTO. - No defined career path for engineers - CTO suffers from a complex in which he believes whatever he thinks and whatever decisions he takes are right. He wants to control everything and dip his nose in every affair. - The leadership team is a bunch of amateurs. - People unworthy of being managers are being managers. - CTO being impulsive, immature and inexperienced, most of the engineers in the engineering team believe that its better not to speak up if anything is wrong. - CTO was once was about to be charged by an employee for sexual harassment - The engineering is mediocre. Any efforts to improve or fix things are reverted by CTO because again, he thinks he is always right. - Reviews which say positively about the CTO/CEO are basically brown-nosing. - Having no experienced or senior engineers in the team basically means you will be directionless. - Engineers who literally built the company were/are asked to leave just because CEO/CTO found it hard to work with them.

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      HackerEarth Response
      7y
      Hi, thanks for taking the time to write this review & I'm really sorry to hear that you've had a bad experience working with me. It is really unfortunate you didn't have a good experience working at HackerEarth. I've worked so hard to create a company where people are valued and feel empowered to succeed and grow. I'm really sorry that our efforts did not meeting your expectations. On some of the concerns raised, yes we have worked on a career path for engineers and it has been rolled out for most teams recently. Hope that should gives my employees clarity on their career path. With our big ambitious goals laid out for the next few years, I'll admit that sometimes i can become too focused on execution of those goals. I have time and again, asked my team to share their feedback and ensure there is open dialogue , ideas shared are always taken into considered and the right forum is provided for all to share their ideas as well. One thing we do believe in, is to never restrict anyone to their role and encourage employees to come up with new and innovative ideas. Through my 1:1 meetings, team meetings, monthly all hands, team dinners/lunch, informal connects, I am working hard to seek feedback and connect with my employees on a personal level. Yes, there have been exits due to performance issues recently due to which there has been some anxiety around. However, we have addressed all concerns raised by all and am hoping there is no ambiguity around the same anymore. We have a strong team of engineers who work relentlessly and are seen as mentors and go-to people. Having said that, we are in the process of hiring senior engineers and hopefully you would not feel directionless in the future. We do encourage employees to share genuine feedback about HE as an organization and also let us know on areas we need to work on priority. I am thankful you took the time to share your opinion here so that i can reflect on it and think about ways we can make HackerEarth a great place to work in. I genuinely care about this company and hope this response has helped sort some of your concerns. For any further concerns, please feel free to reach out to me anytime and I would be more than happy to help:)
      1.0
      20 Sept 2019

      I may be fired any time like many of colleagues

      Sales
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      lovely office, great pantry and 5 days working

      Cons

      RECRUIT is an SMB market product. They must realize this and lead sales team towards building it an even stronger market. They pressurize sales people to sell in enterprise market which the product doesn't serve well- Brand wise or USP wise. Couple of years ago they had a strong enterprise sales team even that team succumbed to unexpected management pressure. They left in quick succession or mostly fired (as I hear stories here from old timers). They have even fired those leaders who gave them amazing logos from enterprise market. I am scared to the core as in where have I joined. Somebody here is a relative of a core member of leadership team and he shares some old stories of people being fired. Stories are sad, inhuman and arrogant. I feel I am the next to go as they won't give me SMB market to sell and enterprise market continues to tease us with " how different are you with hackerrank?"

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      HackerEarth Response
      6y
      Thanks for sharing your feedback and voicing your concerns. Let me try and address your questions1. Recruit is not a SMB only product, yes there is a great SMB fit for the product but the fact is that the most impact of the product comes in an enterprise because that's where they are dealing with high volume of candidates, tons of human bias and variety of requirement. I also don't agree that we don't have an enterprise base or we cannot build it further. Just last quarter we have on boarded 9 new very good enterprise logos and we see healthy retention across all enterprise customers.2. Doesn't it seem counter intuitive that we will fire those people who have opened key enterprise accounts for us? Whenever someone has been asked to leave it is after multiple discussions about their poor performance, and after coaching and guiding them. Yes we have not done a super job of hiring the best fit and hence have made bad hires in the past, we are learning from those mistakes and making our hiring process more robust. 3. If you feel you are a better fit for SMB market, my recommendation is to apply for that role as we are expanding both enterprise and SMB team. With respect to the point about 'better than HackerRank' there are 2 things I want to call out - the market is big enough for 2 players to co-exist and build strong businesses - if only the product with most features won the market than the current ecosystem of successful enterprise companies would look very different. Business growth is a function of strong product, strong sales and a strong culture. 4. I have no qualms in saying that I have full confidence in my leadership team. At times it may appear that I am a layer too far away but that does not mean in any way that I am far away from the strategic decisions. Lastly, I would say that there are always 2 sides of the story and if you feel that something wasn't done the right way in the past, come up speak to us and understand the full picture. We have always maintained an open communication channel primarily because we don't want misinformation going around. If you would like you can directly write to me about your concerns. I hope the gives you more context and makes you feel better. - Sachin
      1.0
      23 Sept 2018

      The "CTO"

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      If you are a fresher/intern, this might be a good place to start your career. Office is in a nice location.

      Cons

      If you are a fresher/intern or out of job, this might be a good place to start and destroy your career. - CTO has lost touch with technology but still believes he knows everything and is being projected as a true programmer and hacker out there. - CTO is a immature and impulsive. His decisions do not have any basis and then he will try to enforce those decisions on the team/company. - Almost all the old employees in the engineering team have left due to the rude, childish, arrogant and bad leadership of the CTO. - CTO will preach about being attentive in the meetings but all the time you will find him lost and indulged in his phone. If you ask anything in the meeting, he will give some stupid suggestion which he would refute days later and blame you instead. - No senior engineers in the team. - Engineers are not paid at par with the market but the expectation is to work days and nights in office. - Unrealistic engineering deadlines which keep getting extended. - CTO micro manages every single member in the engineering team. - No work from home because it is against the culture of the company. If you don't come to office for some reason, you will receive a mail or ping from the CTO. - Don't believe in appraisals. Major component of your increment would be variable which you will never get completely on the grounds that the company didn't perform well. - Bad engineering managers. They are basically proxies of the CTO. No original thoughts as such. - If you suggest an idea to the CTO, he will disagree, but then if someone from another renowned company suggests the same or he finds an article online on it, he would say "hey, its an awesome idea and why are we not doing it."

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      HackerEarth Response
      7y
      Hi, it seems that due to some reasons I [CTO] have really offended you and you didn't have a good experience working at HackerEarth because of which you had to leave. I regret that things panned out that way. However, I would like to address some of the things that you have highlighted : 1. We are building the middle management layer right now and hiring strong EMs and VP of Eng. There is no manager in the team for engineers right now and all of them directly report to me. Being a manager myself, I am indeed responsible for setting the goals, running scrum meetings, reviewing progress every two weeks, and checking up on people how they are doing. I like to get out of engineer's way to let them work freely and everyone who works with me today can vet that. 2. I don't write code every day now, but that is something I love to do. Not writing code doesn't mean I have lost touch with technology if that has created the perception in your mind. Today, I actively run training sessions for new engineers, review code almost every day, advise engineers on architectural decisions, and still directly run the infrastructure team. Even as of today, I am 24/7 on-call for any engineering issue. 3. All the engineers know that they can work from home when they want to, even if there is no official policy for it. All the engineers know they can also take leaves freely and they are not interrogated on that. Of course, we expect that due process should be followed for taking leaves. 4. The new engineers in the team have taken a lot of responsibilities, they take up new initiatives every day, and they suggest new ideas which go to production quickly. 5. Some old engineers in the team have left because they were asked to leave as they couldn't grow as the company grew, doesn't mean that they are not competent but just that as companies grow some times the path of a company and the individuals can diverge.. Some old engineers are still leading the different teams today and some more have stepped up to lead the team going ahead. We have to have a high performing culture, but not at the cost of anything else. 6. Engineers are not supposed to work day & night. Most of the people have a very healthy work-life balance. Everyone sets their deadlines themselves and try to meet them. People go to the gym, play sports, go for hiking on weekends, plan regular team outings, and everything else required to have a good life. I am proud to say that all engineers in the team today are so honest and mature about their work and there has never been a better time to work at HackerEarth :)
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