Summer ’26 Release

Summer ’26 Release

The best developers don't just write code, they orchestrate agents. Hire for the agentic era with deeper insight into AI Fluency, sharper interviews from Chakra, and integrity signals you can trust.

CHAKRA

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Evaluate the Reasoning Behind the Code

Chakra, HackerRank's AI interviewer, now opens an in-line code editor, asking candidates to solve a real coding question and probing their approach with follow-up questions, so you see how they think, not just the code they produce.

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Evaluate the Reasoning Behind the Code

Chakra, HackerRank's AI interviewer, now opens an in-line code editor, asking candidates to solve a real coding question and probing their approach with follow-up questions, so you see how they think, not just the code they produce.

Review Interviews in Full Context

Full session video playback brings the candidate's screen, webcam feed, and transcript together, so you can replay the interview and understand responses in context.

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Review Interviews in Full Context

Full session video playback brings the candidate's screen, webcam feed, and transcript together, so you can replay the interview and understand responses in context.

Focus on the Skills That Matter Most

Must-have requirements let you flag the skills and qualifications a role depends on, and Chakra weights them more heavily during evaluation to surface the candidates who fit best.

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Focus on the Skills That Matter Most

Must-have requirements let you flag the skills and qualifications a role depends on, and Chakra weights them more heavily during evaluation to surface the candidates who fit best.

Export and Compare Candidate Reports

Report export delivers overall scores, section-level scores, and candidate summaries as a CSV, making it easy to analyze performance, compare candidates, and share results.

Manage Chakra Inside Your ATS

Chakra now integrates with Workday, so you can schedule interviews and review reports without leaving your existing ATS. (Chakra already integrates with Greenhouse and Ashby.)

Manage Chakra Inside Your ATS

Chakra now integrates with Workday, so you can schedule interviews and review reports without leaving your existing ATS. (Chakra already integrates with Greenhouse and Ashby.)

Manage Chakra Inside Your ATS

Chakra now integrates with Workday, so you can schedule interviews and review reports without leaving your existing ATS. (Chakra already integrates with Greenhouse and Ashby.)

Manage Chakra Inside Your ATS

Chakra now integrates with Workday, so you can schedule interviews and review reports without leaving your existing ATS. (Chakra already integrates with Greenhouse and Ashby.)

Bring Results into Your Workflows

New API access lets you programmatically pull interview reports and candidate data into your ATS, dashboards, and reporting workflows.

Bring Results into Your Workflows

New API access lets you programmatically pull interview reports and candidate data into your ATS, dashboards, and reporting workflows.

AI FLUENCY

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See How Candidates Plan Before They Code

Plan Mode lets candidates use the unguarded AI Assistant to explore a problem and refine their approach before writing code, so you see how they approach complex problems, not just the code they produce.

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See How Candidates Plan Before They Code

Plan Mode lets candidates use the unguarded AI Assistant to explore a problem and refine their approach before writing code, so you see how they approach complex problems, not just the code they produce.

Understand How a Candidate's Code Evolved

Diff View shows how a candidate's work took shape from the starting point onward, including the changes they made with AI. Available for front-end, back-end, and full-stack questions in Screen and Interview.

Understand How a Candidate's Code Evolved

Diff View shows how a candidate's work took shape from the starting point onward, including the changes they made with AI. Available for front-end, back-end, and full-stack questions in Screen and Interview.

Experience a Faster, Clearer AI Assistant

The AI Assistant is now faster and more stable, with a visible thinking trail, smarter context gathering in large repositories, and automatic recovery from transient errors so sessions stay uninterrupted.

Experience a Faster, Clearer AI Assistant

The AI Assistant is now faster and more stable, with a visible thinking trail, smarter context gathering in large repositories, and automatic recovery from transient errors so sessions stay uninterrupted.

INTEGRITY

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Catch Potential Use of Off-Screen Resources

Gaze Detection (limited availability) flags when a candidate repeatedly looks away from the screen and then resumes typing, surfacing potential use of external resources as added context in the Integrity Summary for your review.

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Catch Potential Use of Off-Screen Resources

Gaze Detection (limited availability) flags when a candidate repeatedly looks away from the screen and then resumes typing, surfacing potential use of external resources as added context in the Integrity Summary for your review.

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Proctoring for Data Science, QA, DevOps, and More

Proctor Mode and the HackerRank Desktop App now support Data Science, QA, DevOps, Whiteboard, and Diagram questions, so you can maintain test integrity across more of your assessments.

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Proctoring for Data Science, QA, DevOps, and More

Proctor Mode and the HackerRank Desktop App now support Data Science, QA, DevOps, Whiteboard, and Diagram questions, so you can maintain test integrity across more of your assessments.

Upgraded Detection Accuracy

Improved proctoring accuracy sharpens object and screenshot detection, and more reliably handles image analysis (multiple faces, a different person, or a candidate stepping away) across home, campus, and low-light setups. It also recognizes more communication patterns in the code editor, including regional languages written in English.

Upgraded Detection Accuracy

Improved proctoring accuracy sharpens object and screenshot detection, and more reliably handles image analysis (multiple faces, a different person, or a candidate stepping away) across home, campus, and low-light setups. It also recognizes more communication patterns in the code editor, including regional languages written in English.

PLATFORM

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Evaluate Candidates with More Questions and Tasks

The HackerRank Library has 159 new Plan-Build-Review repository tasks for interviews, where candidates resolve a customer-style ticket: investigate the issue, use AI to plan a fix, implement it, and explain their approach. This release also adds hundreds of new project and coding questions, as well as AI Engineering questions for prompt engineering and RAG.


Evaluate Candidates with More Questions and Tasks

The HackerRank Library has 159 new Plan-Build-Review repository tasks for interviews, where candidates resolve a customer-style ticket: investigate the issue, use AI to plan a fix, implement it, and explain their approach. This release also adds hundreds of new project and coding questions, as well as AI Engineering questions for prompt engineering and RAG.


Get Hiring Insights with the HackerRank MCP

Connect the AI tools your team already uses, like Claude and ChatGPT, directly to your live HackerRank data. The new read-only HackerRank MCP (limited availability) gives your approved AI a secure connection that respects your existing HackerRank permissions, so you can ask for a weekly recruiting update, a candidate pipeline summary, a briefing for tomorrow's interviews, and more.

Get Hiring Insights with the HackerRank MCP

Connect the AI tools your team already uses, like Claude and ChatGPT, directly to your live HackerRank data. The new read-only HackerRank MCP (limited availability) gives your approved AI a secure connection that respects your existing HackerRank permissions, so you can ask for a weekly recruiting update, a candidate pipeline summary, a briefing for tomorrow's interviews, and more.