HackerEarth Software Developer reviews

4.4

89% would recommend to a friend

(16 total reviews)

Sachin Gupta and Vivek Prakash

92% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

Software Developer employees have rated HackerEarth with 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 16 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer professionals have an excellent working experience there. HackerEarth is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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16 reviews
4.0
Jul 12, 2022

Good

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good opportunity and ownerships. A full startup environment. Chill People.

Cons

Compensation and Perks. Only work and high attrition.

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HackerEarth Response
3y
Oops! :) That's not a good one. Only work and high attrition. We want you to know that we are continuing to work, keep our focus on closing these gaps
5.0
Jul 24, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Work Culture, Environment, Friendly Leadership, Ample amount of opportunities for everyone

Cons

No Food on board. Non-tech people have got MacBooks for no apparent reason, meanwhile, engineers are demanding good Mac machines from a long time with no success.

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HackerEarth Response
5y
Thank you for the feedback :) On the MacBooks, we hear you and are looking into this.
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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