Evaluation of a Question During Test Time-Out

Last updated: August 8, 2025

There are scenarios to code auto-submission during test time-out for different question types in HackerRank.

Definitions: Saving and Submitting a Question in a Test

Run Code: Compiles/executes a single test case in a question (can be a sample test case or a custom input).

Run Test: Compiles/executes all the test cases for a question. 

Submit: Explicit submission of the question solution (solution can be submitted multiple times).

Question Type

Candidate Action

Outcome During a Test Time-Out

Coding, Database, Approximate Solution 

Run Code: No 
*Run Test: No 
**Submit/Save & Proceed: No  

Typed code will not be considered for evaluation. 

Coding, Database, Approximate Solution

Run Code: Yes
*Run Test: Yes
**Submit/Save & Proceed: Yes

The latest submitted code will be considered for evaluation. 

Coding, Database, Approximate Solution

Run Code: Yes
*Run Test: Yes
**Submit/Save & Proceed: No 

The outcome of the recent Run Test action is considered for evaluation.

Coding, Database, Approximate Solution

Run Code: Yes
*Run Test: No 
**Submit/Save & Proceed: No  

The outcome of the recent Run Code action is considered for evaluation.

Coding, Database, Approximate Solution

Modifies answer after submitting code once, but: 

Run Code: Yes/No 
*Run Test: Yes/No 
**Submit/Save & Proceed: No 

The last submitted code will be considered for evaluation. 

HTML, CSS, JS

Render: Yes 
Submit: Yes 

The latest submitted code will be considered for evaluation. 

Projects: Front-End, Back-End, Full Stack, Mobile Development 

Run Test: Yes/No

**Submit/Save & Proceed: Yes/No

The last change made by the candidate will be considered for evaluation.

Note: The code will not be saved if the repository size exceeds 25MB. 

Projects: DevOps, Cloud, and Data Science

**Submit/Save & Proceed: Yes/No

The last change made by the candidate will be considered for evaluation.

Note: The code will not be saved if the repository size exceeds 25MB. 

MCQ, Sentence Completion, Subjective, File Upload, Diagram, Whiteboard, Code Review 

Not Applicable

Selected/given answers will be auto-saved and considered for evaluation. 

*Run Test is applicable only in the new candidate experience.

**Submit is applicable in the existing candidate experience, and Save & Proceed is applicable in the new candidate experience.

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