HackerRank Radio

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.