HackerRank Radio

Welcome to the another episode of HackerRank Radio! In today's episode, we have Tanu Garg, Executive Director at EY, and Thiru Vengadam, Partner at EY. EY is one of the world’s largest professional services networks and has over 350,000 employees worldwide! With employee strength as strong as this, EY faces unique challenges in terms of finding skilled talent, dealing with thousands of candidates for each open role, and more!

In this conversation with EY, we uncovered profound insights shared by two distinguished figures from EY, unveiling their approach to shaping the future of talent acquisition in the technology sector. Tune in to learn more!

Welcome to this episode of HackerRank Radio! Today we're thrilled to have Anil Nair and Suhas Mansingh from Cisco - a company that has evolved from its networking solutions roots to offer state-of-the-art products and services that cover every need of a business. In this episode, we'll delve into their perspectives about heatedly-discussed subjects like cloud-delivered security and also discuss the shiny new and exciting work they're doing in the coming year. Anil is the VP of Engineering in Cisco's Security Business Group, and Suhas is the VP of Software Development in Cisco's Distributed Systems Engineering Group. Tune into this episode as we talk about XaaS, IoT, and our guests tell us — What’s Next for Tech Leader Cisco?

Diversity truly equals excellence at a company — a 2020 report from McKinsey that studied over 1000 companies concluded that there was a positive correlation between how diverse an executive team is, and the company's financial performance. While it's no secret that the world of work today is deluged by layoffs, hiring freezes and an atmosphere of uncertainty, we believe it's a good time to put on our reading glasses, dive in and study what kind of values and teams make a company truly incredible. DTCC's spirited Executive Director of Talent, Blair Goodman recently joined us for a conversation around the same, how DTCC has raised the bar in attracting and cultivating talent, and how they aim to change the status quo of DE&I.

Gokul Menon describes himself as an average nerd working in FAANG (or MANGA now), but we think he’s way above average - a HackerRank All Star. Since graduating from Rutgers University, he’s had a glitzy career with 9 years of development experience in the financial sector as Vice President at Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, and later switching paths to become a Senior Software Engineer at Meta. He’s already spent two years at Meta, where he is a part of a small but mighty team responsible for keeping Facebook Live, alive and kicking.

How do you get sought-after developers to join your team when people haven’t heard of your company? As a proprietary trading firm, Optiver encounters unique hiring challenges in FinTech, a competitive and high-performance industry. David Kent, team lead of the Automated Trading Systems team, shares his first-hand experience building a team of engineers and how he continues to grow it.

To commemorate HackerRank's first Developer Skills Survey, HackerRank's CEO & Cofounder Vivek Ravisankar sat down with veteran VP of engineer Jawahar Malhotra to unpack some of the findings. Jawahar’s scaled up teams for all of Yahoo India, Open Gov, and Tealeaf. In fact, he’s been at the core of the Web's evolution since his work at Netscape in the mid 90s.

Anyone who is involved in the technical hiring process, whether as a hiring manager or candidate, has probably heard of Gayle Laakmann McDowell. She's the author of Cracking the *interview books (Cracking the Coding Interview, Cracking the PM Interview, and Cracking the Tech Career). In this episode, she talks about the rise of interview prep companies, advice for candidates who are out of practice and why there is no perfect interview process.

We had a chance to catch up with Prasad Kuchoor Rao, Director of Talent Acquisition at Adobe in India, who comes with a wealth of experience in recruiting early talent for companies like Google and Walmart Labs. Listen to Prasad as he walks us through best practices for finding the right talent on campus, boosting employer brand in universities to attract early talent and more.

In our latest episode of HackerRank Radio, we sat down with ForeSee CTO Rumpa Giri as she breaks down the challenges of finding the right technical talent for the healthcare industry. She dives into what makes a developer successful in healthcare tech, how she goes about evaluating developer candidates, and the #1 skill she always looks for.

How do you separate signal from the noise that developers are constantly bombarded with? What kind of candidate experience is this, anyway, for our most sought-after talent? Why don't developers express their interests up front before going through the ringer of phone screens...only to realize the opportunity is far from a good fit? One question led to another, and pretty soon, Hung launched Workshape.io, a talent matching service that helps companies connect with talent based on interest as opposed to keywords on a resume.

We sat down with Pymetrics own Frida Polli, a neuroscientist turned founder, in our latest episode of HackerRank radio, to learn more about the science behind Pymetrics and discuss the greatest strength HackerRank and Pymetrics share--powering unbiased hiring.

We sat down with James McLeod, software engineering lead at Lloyds Bank, to learn more about how one of the largest banks in the UK is handling digital disruption in the finance industry. James has been a developer for almost twenty years and has spoken at places like GitHub Conference and DevOps Enterprise Summit.

We sat down with Jennifer Shappley, LinkedIn's Senior Director of Talent Acquisition, to find out how a company of this size rapidly sources and grows the technical talent it needs. Jennifer has been at LinkedIn for the past three years and prior to that, she led talent acquisition at Express Scripts where she grew the company from 10,000 to over 30,000 employees.

Angela Miller began her tenure at Pure Storage over 4 years ago as a Technical Recruiting Lead, and now leads the talent organization as the Director of Global Talent Acquisition. Headquartered in Mountain View, Pure Storage is constantly competing with tech giants for developer talent. While some might frame this competitive market as a talent shortage, Pure Storage sees no such thing.

In this interview, Aubrey, Atlassian's Global Head of Diversity and Belonging and Gaurav Verma, HackerRank’s VP of Customer Success, discusses why diversity and inclusion should be replaced with balance and belonging. Aubrey also shares concrete and practical ways companies can create balanced teams, establish an atmosphere where everyone feels empowered, and eliminate bias from the hiring process.

In our latest episode of HackerRank Radio, our CEO and Cofounder Vivek Ravisankar spoke with Jeremy Johnson, CEO and Cofounder of Andela. The two dive into everything from the tech talent shortage, the experimental advantage startups have, and the industry shift to building distributed teams.

This episode of the podcast is an excerpt from our HackerRank main() event in San Francisco. Vivek chats with Michael Glukhovsky, Developer Relations at Stripe, to understand how Stripe has become such a well-respected developer brand.

Bazaarvoice is helping companies build their online reputation. Being the largest provider of ratings and reviews means they see upwards of 1 billion users’ devices on a monthly basis. Working for a company with this volume of data is exciting to a developer. We wanted to understand how Bazaarvoice approaches their tech recruiting strategy.

From spending 5 years as a part of the United States Air Force, to becoming a Senior Software Engineer at one of the biggest tech companies in the world-Microsoft, it’s been an arduous but rewarding journey for Jerome Hardaway. During this journey, he founded Vets Who Code, a veteran-led non-profit that’s served as a launchpad for many veterans.. He’s also won several honors, such as being named a Twilio Champion, Github Star and Google Developer Expert and his journey is far from stagnant. Jerome is now a HackerRank All-Star, and he hopes to educate our community about everything from landing your dream tech job to how to transition into a tech role.