Everyone Says Coding Is Dead. We Just Opened an Office.

Vivek Ravisankar on the difference between evaluating how well someone writes code and whether they can build software. Here’s why he thinks that distinction is the entire business.

Filmed in the new office, and the office is half the answer. Vivek Ravisankar explains why the desks and the content studio are meant to make people think about product quality without being told, what learning to code taught him about breaking a company problem into its sub-problems and edge cases, and the three dimensions HackerRank is changing at once: the tasks, the evaluation, and a candidate experience that moved from a plain editor to an IDE with an assistant and a terminal.