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# Making the world flat, one programmer at a time. Vivek Ravishankar, Co-founder at HackerRank. #PNHangout.

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March 13, 2025

I am one of the founders of [HackerRank](http://www.hackerrank.com/), formally called InterviewStreet, where we are building a platform for programmers to hone their skills and companies to streamline their recruiting process. Currently we are a team of 66 split across Palo Alto and Bangalore and we have been signing up companies like [FB](http://www.facebook.com/), [Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/),[VMWare](http://www.vmware.com/), [Bloomberg](http://www.bloomberg.com/), etc. as our customers while simultaneously growing our developer community. We originally started off with a platform for mock interviews but we pivoted based on customer feedback and we kept iterating until we found a gap in technical recruiting which we discovered had a huge market but was struggling from a recruitment perspective which is why we chose to go ahead and tackle this domain.

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