HackerEarth reviews

3.7

67% would recommend to a friend

(246 total reviews)

Sachin Gupta and Vivek Prakash

82% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

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).

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246 reviews
5.0
Oct 17, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- If you are willing to learn the kind of exposure and opportunities you get is impeccable. - There is so much to learn every day, especially the kind of client conversations you have, the kind of people you get to talk to. If you love technology, its like Christmas every day - Everyone is very approachable, you can walk up to your Manager, CEO, CTO, Product Team, Marketing Team, and brainstorm on deals, product positioning and anything in the sales cycle

Cons

- Pantry can have more options :)

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HackerEarth Response
7y
Thank you for such a positive feedback. Your feedback reinforces our faith in the effectiveness of what we are doing . Each and everyone here plays a critical role in making HackerEarth what it is today and we thank you for being a part of our journey! On pantry having more options, assure you this will be resolved soon:)
2.0
Oct 6, 2018

Leadership should change their Mindset

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Assessments is a growing space and the most of the competitors are thriving in this space.

Cons

Very high pressure, People coming from Times Group have a retail mindset.

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HackerEarth Response
7y
Thanks for the response but I would appreciate if you can shed some more light on the feedback. Yes we do have ambitious targets laid out for every quarter but we also do believe that If we have a goal and a plan, and are willing to take risks and mistakes and work as a team, nothing is impossible. We're always working to improve, and will always be critiqued on our next performance. We believe there's always room to grow. Having said that , if you feel you have had a different experience wherein the work pressure is coming in the way of your performance , then I would love to discuss with you to fix things. I assure that your feedback will be acted upon and we will put our best efforts to fix anything that is going wrong
1.0
Sep 28, 2018

Dont join HackerEarth

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:)
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