CodeSignal vs. HackerRank

CodeSignal

175 Reviews and Ratings

HackerRank

69 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
CodeSignal	Score9.2 out of 10	N/A	CodeSignal is a technical skills assessment platform that enables companies to quickly hire qualified candidates for technical roles. With over 70 coding languages and tools and a built in plagiarism checker, companies can be confident that the candidates they select will be successful in their new roles.	N/A
HackerRank	Score8.8 out of 10	N/A	HackerRank is a technology hiring platform from the company of the same name headquartered in Mountain View, for assessing developer skills for over 2500 companies around the world. HackerRank helps companies hire skilled developers and innovate faster by enabling tech recruiters and hiring managers to objectively evaluate talent at every stage of the recruiting process.	$199 per month per user

Pricing

CodeSignal

HackerRank

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Starter: $199
per month
Pro: $449
per month
Enterprise: Custom Pricing
per year

Pricing Offerings
CodeSignal	HackerRank
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	Yes

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	CodeSignal	HackerRank
Considered Both Products	CodeSignal Verified User Chose CodeSignal HackerRank in general has more features as compared to CodeSignal although it does get heavy on the user using the platform unless you are accustomed to it. Although the platform in itself is more popular compared to CodeSignal. Personally I was introduced to hacker rank before … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose CodeSignal Both CodeSignal and HackerRank are popular platforms that offer coding challenges, assessments, and interview preparation for developers. Here are some key differences between the two and why I selected CodeSignal: Focus on assessment: While both platforms offer coding … Incentivized Helpful? Dishant Kapadiya Student in Engineering at Northeastern University (Education Management, 501-1000 employees) Chose CodeSignal We are still considering CodeSignal and haven't truly migrated to this. HackerRank is still our preferred way of doing business due to its rich integration with our process. Additionally, its a familliar interface for most of our candidates hence CodeSignal still needs to go a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose CodeSignal Codesignal provides features like screen recording and monitors candidates while they take the assessments, thereby reducing the possibility of cheating during the assessment, which is a known problem with other providers like HackerRank. Codesignal also provides predictive … Incentivized Helpful? Kajal Singh Senior Applications Engineer in Engineering at ADP (Computer Software, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose CodeSignal HackerRank is better as it's just one or at max, two questions when asked by companies, whereas code-signal asks for 4 questions in a limited time. It helps you to complete the question and consider all its edge cases instead of jumping around multiple questions. This frequent … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose CodeSignal HackerEarth I've used as part of an interview before. It was alright, I felt like the questions were too verbose, so I didn't like it very much. HackerRank is pretty good, and I would say it is the biggest competitor for CodeSignal when I am picking an interviewing platform. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose CodeSignal CodeSignal is less complicated to utilize than HackerRank. In my opinion, HackerEarth's performance is even better than HackerRank's. The evaluation Tracker, as well as the analysis chart that shows after coding and is significantly more useful than I imagined, drew me in the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose CodeSignal UX is smoother and more user-friendly. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose CodeSignal The pricing for CodeSignal was more in line with what our expectations for this product would be. We were also able to trial it out before buying and everyone on our team liked it. Lastly, it also came recommended from someone in our organization who had used it in a previous … Incentivized Helpful? Derrick Isaacson Chief Technology Officer in Engineering at Borderless (Human Resources, 11-50 employees) Chose CodeSignal I found CodeSignal's model for defining test cases to be more effective. Other products rely on console I/O which is very limiting, and adds complexity for candidates and interviews in parsing input and formatting output. CodeSignal's interface of functions, with parameters and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose CodeSignal For me, the biggest difference between CodeSignal and other products is the questions set. The questions I was asked while using CodeSignal are way more related to what I would be doing on the job which I think is very important. It's annoying to do what basically amounts to a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose CodeSignal CodeSignal provides UI UX that is far more optimized than any other product on the market; the IDE itself has a multitude of options that aren’t available anywhere else. It functions as an end to end assessment system whereas the others are missing critical features that … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose CodeSignal Codesignal and hacker rank are similar since they are both ways for employers to assess potential employees and applicants so they can understand who will be the best fit for the role, since they test coding abilities. I used code signal since Roblox required it and so I needed … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose CodeSignal CodeSignal's platform is the best in almost every aspect. It provides a nice user-friendly environment. The functionalities the environment provides are the best. It is a nice cheating-free platform that is very easy to understand and use. The scores provided are normalized and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose CodeSignal Codesignal stacks pretty well. The design of the product is clean and intuitive. I didn't choose Codesignal in particular. I'm only the user. I use it when companies send me coding tests on the platform. I think Codesignal is the best compared to these other platforms in … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose CodeSignal Code signal is much simpler on the eyes and while using than these products. Far more expensive and would take much longer to reach ROI than CodeSignal. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose CodeSignal I have selected code signal because it is easier to use and to evaluate my coding and my skills as well. Also, it improved my skills, and for my company, we use it to evaluate the candidates very extensively on the contrary of the other peers who don't offer like CodeSignal the … Incentivized Helpful? Samuel Aidoo Full Stack Developer in Information Technology at ROPAT SYSTEMS LIMITED (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose CodeSignal The gamified approach used by CodeSignal makes the application very fun to use and also it feels rewarding which make problem-solving easier compared to other application. CodeSignal also makes you know how you are performing on the leaderboard. CodeSignal is very fun to use … Incentivized Helpful? Muhammad Awais Muhammadi Associate Software Engineer in Information Technology at TekFirst (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose CodeSignal CodeSignal is better than HackerEarth and coderbyte due to its friendly UI and easy-to-use ability. In mostly every other term, I was dissatisfied with the editor issue during my online assessment. The line in which the error was shown by the compiler did not have any errors, … Incentivized Helpful? Naman Sharma Student in Information Technology at Santa Clara University (E-Learning, 10,001+ employees) Chose CodeSignal Code signal is better than HackerEarth in mostly every other term, but I was dissatisfied with the compiler issue during my online assessment. The line in which the error was shown by the compiler did not have any errors, and when I recompiled the code on hacker earth, it … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose CodeSignal CodeSignal has a better interface and also the quality of coding questions is much better than on other platforms. Incentivized Helpful? Nisha Janardhanan Full stack engineer intern in Engineering at Autodesk (Computer Software, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose CodeSignal I like the fact that CodeSignal has online proctoring where there is a proctor monitoring for any malicious activity during the assessment. One thing very unique and awesome about code signal is that it has the best code analysis feature I have ever seen and it is pretty … Incentivized Helpful? Vaibhav Jain Proctor at Northeastern University (Education Management, 10,001+ employees) Chose CodeSignal Due to its UI, CodeSignal has an advantage over its competitors. CodeSignal's auto-culmination features and the variety of issues it offers help it to outperform its competitors. In comparison to previous stages, the questions are almost daily refreshed, and new inquiries are … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose CodeSignal The main thing that springs to me is the UI plan that the engineers have made. In contrast with the choices recorded above, I trust that most people will pick CodeSignal concerning an imaginative and easy-to-use plan. The stage is essential as far as how much time and cares it … Incentivized Helpful? Nihal Patel Programmer Analyst in Information Technology at Meditab Software, Inc. (Computer Software, 201-500 employees) Chose CodeSignal I think CodeSignal is better compared to its competitors since it provides a detailed analysis of the candidate's abilities and the assessments taken are proctored and verified. The candidates have also liked it since the platform has a fabulous interface. However, one thing … Incentivized Helpful?	HackerRank Ryan Daly Software Engineering Intern in Engineering at Arista Networks (Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees) Chose HackerRank HackerRank is used by many other similar organizations so our targeted candidates are more familiar with the HackerRank interface. CodeSignal is nice because candidates can take one test and send it to many different companies. However, this means that individual companies have … Incentivized Helpful?
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User Ratings
	CodeSignal	HackerRank
Likelihood to Recommend	9.7 (121 ratings)	9.4 (5 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.0 (10 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	9.8 (12 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Availability	9.0 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	8.2 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.6 (9 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
In-Person Training	8.1 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Online Training	8.2 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	5.7 (5 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Configurability	8.1 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	8.2 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	9.0 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	8.1 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	8.2 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)