--- title: "Case Study: How Flipkart saves 100 days in campus hiring - HackerRank Blog" description: Campus Hiring Campus hiring is a popular way of recruiting freshers and has been fairly... image: https://pages.hackerrank.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/flipkart+rebranded+logo-1.jpg --- ![](https://pages.hackerrank.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/flipkart+rebranded+logo-1.jpg?width=320&height=138&name=flipkart+rebranded+logo-1.jpg) # Case Study: How Flipkart saves 100 days in campus hiring ![HackerRank](https://7528315.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hub/7528315/hubfs/raw_assets/public/mV0_d-cms-elevate-theme_hubspot/elevate/images/avatar-placeholder.jpg?width=48&height=48&name=avatar-placeholder.jpg) HackerRank March 13, 2025 **![Flipkart](https://pages.hackerrank.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/flipkart+rebranded+logo-1.jpg?width=320&height=138&name=flipkart+rebranded+logo-1.jpg "Flipkart")****Campus Hiring** Campus hiring is a popular way of recruiting freshers and has been fairly effective to get good talent into the company. Typically, around 3 developers and an HR visit a campus, spend almost 1.5 – 2 days for the entire process (pre-placement talks, written test, interviews, etc.). If the company visits 20-25 campuses a year, they are approximately spending 25 * 2 * 4  (campuses * no. of days * no. of people) = **200 days** of combined effort (cumulative). That sounds like a lot of time and it is! **About Flipkart** [Flipkart](http://flipkart.com) is India’s leading e-commerce platform and (proud to say!) have been our customer since the 2nd month of the launch of our product! An amazing company, they are looking for top-notch engineers to join their team and visit a lot of campuses in a year. Growing from a startup phase, the 200 days of cumulative effort is definitely a put off, lets see how we ([Interviewstreet](http://www.interviewstreet.com)) helped them reduce the time. **How Interviewstreet helped them in campus recruitment and saved time** **About Interviewstreet** [Interviewstreet](http://www.interviewstreet.com) helps companies screen programmers using custom programming tests. We have built a codechecker that checks candidates’ code for correctness and optimality helping companies identify good programmers from the lot. This serves as a great way to screen candidates in the early stage. We asked Flipkart for some data and here’s a typical scenario / schedule: - Average students who attempt a test in campus: 150 - Time to evaluate a single paper: 7 min (best case!) - Average no. of developers evaluating the paper: 3 Total time spent in manually evaluating papers (hrs): ( (150 * 7) / 3 ) /60  ~= **6 hrs** - Arrive at campus: 9am - Pre-placement-talk: 9-10 am - Written Test: 10-12 noon - Lunch: 12-1300 hrs - Evaluate written tests: 1300 – 1900 hrs - Interviews all night and catch a flight next day 9am and arrive at work maybe in the noon and we all know how “productive” that day might be! ![🙂](https://pages.hackerrank.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/1f642-Mar-07-2025-11-19-57-3111-PM.svg) Typically 1.5-2 days goes off for every campus recruitment. Here’s a diagrammatic representation of the original scenario and how it has changed using Interviewstreet ![](https://static.hsstatic.net/BlogImporterAssetsUI/ex/missing-image.png) The entire written paper correction is eliminated. Not only is it a pain to manually evaluate papers but also terribly time consuming. The modified schedule would look like - Arrive at campus: 9am - Pre-placement-talk: 9 – 10am - Online test using Interviewstreet: 10 – 12 noon - Results: Instant! - Lunch: 12 – 1300 hrs - Interviews start at 1300 hrs and take a flight back home the same night! Flipkart saves almost a day for every campus they visit. ## Effectively, Flipkart saves 70-100 (cumulative) days in campus hiring for every year! 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