HackerRank assessments are designed to evaluate your problem-solving skills and coding ability fairly and accurately. To ensure a fair hiring process, every candidate must submit original work and complete tests without unauthorized assistance.

Test integrity

Test integrity ensures that each candidate is evaluated based on individual ability.

The following actions are considered malpractice:

• Copying code from books, websites, or other online sources

• Receiving help from another person to complete the test

• Submitting code that closely matches another candidate’s solution

• Exiting full-screen mode during the test

• Switching tabs or navigating away from the test window

Plagiarism detection

HackerRank uses automated tools to identify similarities in submitted code. These tools flag suspicious patterns and highlight potential plagiarism in the test report shared with recruiters.

Plagiarism detection identifies:

• Overlaps between code submitted by different candidates

• Code copied or replicated from internet sources

• Modified code that reproduces the same logic with changes to variable names, structure, or formatting