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Adaface is the best HackerRank alternative to evaluate the on-the-job skills of your candidates.

Adaface is "you'll never go back" better


First we’d just like to give a quick nod to the team at HackerRank. They are part of the ecosystem helping companies hire great candidates and have been in the space for a while. So what’s the difference between HackerRank and Adaface? Sure there are features and product stuff that’s different but the biggest difference is how much we care about candidate experience. We want to ensure every candidate leaves the screening experience with a smile. We believe that status quo tech assessment platforms are not a fair way for companies to evaluate candidates. We started Adaface to help companies find strong teammates by assessing on-the-job skills required for a role. We set up 45 min candidate-friendly, custom assessments that test for on-the-job skills.

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The hiring managers felt that through the technical questions that they asked during the panel interviews, they were able to tell which candidates had better scores, and differentiated with those who did not score as well. They are highly satisfied with the quality of candidates shortlisted with the Adaface screening.


85%
reduction in screening time

Why Adaface is the best Alternative to HackerRank? 👇

Adaface vs HackerRank (Key differences)

1. Question bank

Adaface: Adaface questions are designed to test for on-the-job skills, as opposed to theoretical knowledge. They are designed to simulate scenarios that the candidates might come across while performing the role, are hence the scores reflective of qualifications for the job. There are no trick questions included just to filter out candidates. Every candidate gets a fair chance to showcase their skills.

You can check Adaface sample questions.

HackerRank: HackerRank has a vast library of questions aimed at core internal concepts of data structures and algorithms. These questions are proven to test candidates ability to optimize hard algorithms within the time constraints. This works best for roles that require niche algorithm design skills, similar to that of a competitive programmer or to test fresh graduates.

2. Test taking rate

Adaface: Our conversational assessments have an average completion rate of 86%.

HackerRank: Traditional assessment platforms like HackerRank see a test taking rate of ~50%. In some geographies, this can be as low as 30%.

3. Candidate experience and candidate sentiment

Instead of forcing candidates to go through a traditional assessment, conversational assessments use friendly messaging and intelligent chatbots to engage candidates and screen them for your role. Conversational assessments are the best way to start a relationship with your candidates.

We understand how much candidate experience matters. Our bot, Ada, provides a friendly experience to candidates throughout the assessment (right from a warm invitation email, to giving details about the role & company, giving hints they are stuck etc.) and making sure that candidates have a smile on their face at the end of the chat, irrespective of the result.

Adaface vs HackerRank (Feature wise comparison)

Skills assessment

FeatureAdafaceHackerRank
Coding tests
No. of programming languages supported3232
No. of IT skill tests700+100+
Aptitude assessments-
Non-IT tests (Clerical, Legal, Accounting, Retail Sales)-
Psychometric assessments-
Adaptive assessments-
Custom assessments (built by experts)-
Premium questions-

Candidate friendly features

FeatureAdafaceHackerRank
Candidate engagement-
Company FAQs-
Fully customizable email templates
Rejection emails-

Anti-plagiarism suite

FeatureAdafaceHackerRank
Web proctoring
Video proctoring
Social listening for task leaks
Plagiarism detection

Reporting and Analytics

FeatureAdafaceHackerRank
Easy to share reports and scorecards
Exportable/ downloadable scorecards
Benchmarking of candidates-
Recruiting analytics

Ease of use

FeatureAdafaceHackerRank
Share public link to invite candidates
Cancel unused invites
ATS integrations
API integrations
Internationalization
Candidate pipeline management

Enterprise friendly

FeatureAdafaceHackerRank
White-labelling options-
Custom branding-
Chatbot support-
User, role and access management
Campus hiring support-
Dedicated account manager
EEOC compliant
GDPR compliant

Candidate sentiment for HackerRank

Candidate sentiment for Adaface

Other reasons to use Adaface:

Custom assessments

Adaface assessments are tailored to your job description by our subject matter experts from our library of 10000+ non-googleable questions. Once you sign up for any of our plans, you can request custom assessments from your dashboard, which will be set up in <48 hours. Here is what you can do with custom assessments:

  1. Multiple skills: We can set up custom tests which can test candidates for multiple skills. For eg. for your accounting role, the test can have questions on accounting, finance, Excel, logical reasoning, verbal reasoning and English.
  2. Experience level/ salary: The assessments will be customized in difficulty according to the experience level you are targeting.
  3. Adaptive assessments: For e.g. for your front-end engineering role you are looking for a candidate who is proficient in either React or Angular, the candidate will first be asked for their preference, and they will be asked questions on only that skill.

Aptitude assessments

In addition to technical and coding assessments, Adaface also offers a wide range of aptitude based assessments. Check out our range of aptitude tests.

Assessments for non-technical roles

Adaface also offers assessments for non-technical roles like the Excel Test, Google Adwords Test, Customer Service Test, Accounting Test etc. Check out the full list of 700+ tests.

Short assessments

Candidates have reserved lesser time for giving assessments. For this particular reason, we design short assessments so that candidate invests as less time as possible, but still enough to showcase their expertise.

Great customer service

Whether your team needs an onboarding session or you have a question, we are here to support you. All Adaface plans include 24*7 chat support, which means you can ping us right when you have a question and have it answered in <5 minutes.

Background

Both Adaface and HackerRank are pre-employment screening software that allow companies to automate first round interviews. While some features are similar (like proctoring, social listening for questions leaking) they have major differences that one might consider while deciding which solution to choose.

What is Adaface?

Adaface helps you identify the top candidates for all your tech roles and save crucial engineering time by screening candidates with 750+ custom assessments for on-the-job skills (all programming languages, frameworks, aptitude). Top candidates prefer Adaface because our bot, Ada has a friendly chat involving relevant code challenges with them as opposed to asking trick questions on a test.

What is HackerRank?

HackerRank is a huge community of developers. It also has a technical screening platform that companies can use to conduct online coding tests for first round screening. Candidates go through a timeboxed coding test as part of the screening process and aim to solve competitive programming challenges to prove their algorithm designing skills.

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Expert designed questions to evaluate on-the-jobs skills

Skills

🧐 Question

Medium

Tennis Players
Solve
A tennis coach was trying to put together a team of 4 players for a tennis championship out of 7 players. R, S, T are the male players, and W, X, Y, Z are the female players. Note that all players have equal ability, and the team needs to have atleast 2 male players. While selecting the team we need to keep in mind that all 4 players should be able to play with each other. 
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We also need to keep the following restrictions in mind:
                    - R cannot play with Y
                    - S cannot play with W
                    - T cannot play with Z
Which of the following are true:
                    
                    A: S and Z cannot be in the team together.
                    B: T and Y cannot be in the team together.
                    C: T and X cannot be in the team together.

Medium

Code language
Solve
In a new code language called Adira, 
                    
                    - '4A, 2B, 9C' means 'truth is eternal'
                    - '9C, 2B, 8G, 3F' means 'hatred is not eternal'
                    - '4A, 5T, 3F, 1X' means 'truth does not change'
                    
                    What is the code for 'hatred' in Adira?

Medium

Increasing monthly gross profit
Solve
The CEO of Snipr. Inc wants to grow monthly gross profit by 4%. If costs stay the same, what does the sales turnover need to be in February to achieve this goal?
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Medium

Emma's cafe business
Solve
Emma's cafe has been operating successfully for the last 6 years. Profits have been growing every year, with this year (2020) being their best year so far. As a thank you, Emma treated her staff to a meal at a Michelin star restaurant. 
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Below are 3 statements about Emma, her staff and her cafe. Can you help us decide whether the 3 statements are "True", "Probably True", "Insufficient Data to Say True or False", "Probably False", or "False".
                    
                    1. Emma's staff members are happy.
                    2. Emma's cafe did well in 2016.
                    3. Emma is rich.
                    
                    A: True
                    B: False
                    C: Probably True
                    D: Probably False
                    E: Insufficient Data

Hard

Missing element
Solve
Which of the following figures do you think would complete the pattern shown below?
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Medium

Overseas office
Solve
Your company recently opened a second office overseas. Some of the people from the original office will be relocating. All the people hired in the last six months will continue working in the original location where they were hired. Which of the following statements can be true regarding employees relocating?

Medium

Async Await Promises
Promises
Async-Await
Solve
What will the following code output?
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A: 24 after 5 seconds and after another 5 seconds, another 24
                    B: 24 followed by another 24 immediately
                    C: 24 immediately and another 24 after 5 seconds
                    D: After 5 seconds, 24 and 24
                    E: Undefined
                    F: NaN
                    G: None of these

Hard

Holding References
Solve
What does the following Java code output?
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Medium

Context re-renders
Context
Solve
Review the following React code:
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Pick the correct statements:
                    
                    A: The code renders 10 INDIAN RUPEE
                    B: The code renders 10 SINGAPORE DOLLAR
                    C: The code does not render anything and throws an error since JavaScript objects are not valid as React children
                    D: When the currency portion is clicked, the parent component is re-rendered
                    E: When the currency portion is clicked, parent component will skip the re-render because shouldComponentUpdate returns false
                    F: Parent component can be converted to a functional component with memoization (useMemo or memo) to avoid the re-render

Medium

EC2DataProcessing
EC2
S3
Security Groups
Network ACLs
Solve
You work as a Solutions Architect for a data analysis firm. The company stores large datasets on Amazon S3, and you've been tasked with setting up an Amazon EC2 instance to process this data. The EC2 instance will fetch data from S3, process it, and then write the results back to a different S3 bucket.
                    
                    To ensure security, the EC2 instance should not have direct internet access, and it should only be able to communicate with the S3 buckets. You've decided to place the EC2 instance in a VPC private subnet with a CIDR block of 10.0.1.0/24. The associated security group is set to deny all inbound traffic and allow all outbound traffic.
                    
                    Which additional configuration should you make to enable the EC2 instance to access the S3 buckets while complying with the security requirements?
A: Modify the Network ACL of the subnet to allow outbound connections to the IP range of the S3 service.
                    B: Assign a Public IP to the EC2 instance and update the security group to allow inbound and outbound traffic to S3.
                    C: Add a NAT Gateway in the private subnet and update the route tables to direct S3 traffic to the NAT Gateway.
                    D: Create an S3 VPC Gateway Endpoint and update the route tables for the private subnet to direct S3 traffic to the VPC Endpoint.
                    E: Create a VPN connection from the VPC to the S3 buckets.

Medium

Longest Road
logic
hashmaps
Solve
A startup company E-Motors is building driverless automated cars. The car contains a sensor that checks the road quality for the next N meters to decide the optimal speed at which the cars should move. We are given recorded data by the sensor in the form of an array, where each element of the array is the rating given to 1 meter of the road in sequence. 
                    
                    The rating given by the sensor is from 1 to 100, where 100 represents the road with the best condition, and any rating above 60 is optimal. Find the longest stretch of road in meters that is categorized as optimal by the sensor.
                    
                    The input is an array of "strings" which needs to be converted from string to integer/number inside the function.

Medium

Default summarization
Data Visualisation
Solve
Review the following table in Power BI:
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Here’s the visualisation generated when Book and ReadingChallenges columns are added to a table visualisation:
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Why do we see only 4 rows?
🧐 Question🔧 Skill

Medium

Tennis Players
3 mins
Logical Reasoning
Solve

Medium

Code language
2 mins
Attention to Detail
Solve

Medium

Increasing monthly gross profit
2 mins
Numerical Reasoning
Solve

Medium

Emma's cafe business
2 mins
Critical Thinking
Solve

Hard

Missing element
2 mins
Ravens Progressive Matrices
Solve

Medium

Overseas office
2 mins
Verbal Reasoning
Solve

Medium

Async Await Promises
Promises
Async-Await
2 mins
JavaScript
Solve

Hard

Holding References
2 mins
Java
Solve

Medium

Context re-renders
Context
3 mins
React
Solve

Medium

EC2DataProcessing
EC2
S3
Security Groups
Network ACLs
2 mins
AWS
Solve

Medium

Longest Road
logic
hashmaps
25 mins
Coding
Solve

Medium

Default summarization
Data Visualisation
2 mins
Power BI
Solve
🧐 Question🔧 Skill💪 Difficulty⌛ Time
Tennis Players
Logical Reasoning
Medium3 mins
Solve
Code language
Attention to Detail
Medium2 mins
Solve
Increasing monthly gross profit
Numerical Reasoning
Medium2 mins
Solve
Emma's cafe business
Critical Thinking
Medium2 mins
Solve
Missing element
Ravens Progressive Matrices
Hard2 mins
Solve
Overseas office
Verbal Reasoning
Medium2 mins
Solve
Async Await Promises
Promises
Async-Await
JavaScript
Medium2 mins
Solve
Holding References
Java
Hard2 mins
Solve
Context re-renders
Context
React
Medium3 mins
Solve
EC2DataProcessing
EC2
S3
Security Groups
Network ACLs
AWS
Medium2 mins
Solve
Longest Road
logic
hashmaps
Coding
Medium25 minsSolve
Default summarization
Data Visualisation
Power BI
Medium2 mins
Solve

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Companies around the world use Adaface conversational assessments

Amazon Morgan Stanley Vodafone United Nations HCL PayPal Bosch WeWork Optimum Solutions Deloitte Microsoft NCS Doubtnut Sokrati J&T Express Capegemini

Why top companies use conversational assessments

83% reduction in time to hire

3x interview-to-hire ratio

75% reduction in hours/hire

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With Adaface, we were able to optimise our initial screening process by upwards of 75%, freeing up precious time for both hiring managers and our talent acquisition team alike!


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