Our guest today is Vishwastam Shukla, chief technology officer at HackerEarth, a Bangalore and Silicon Valley company that offers a tech platform for developers and companies to find each other. In today’s conversation, Vishy discusses HackerEarth’s ‘state of developer recruitment 2021’ report — how it’s a candidate’s market out there right now; what might happen to diversity in the short term; and what companies are doing with tech to hire techies.

HackerEarth started as a software tool to help developers prepare for interviews — It was the brainchild of a group of IIT Roorkee engineers, back in 2012-13. Today it has a developer community of over six million and some of the world’s largest companies as customers, using its platform to identify, assess, interview, recruit and retain developers — using its products for everything from coding interviews to internal hackathons.