HackerEarth launches AI interview tool

HackerEarth launched OnScreen on April 14, a tool that runs technical job interviews with artificial intelligence avatars at any hour. (hackerearth.com) The company said OnScreen conducts structured technical interviews, checks candidate identity, and adds proctoring to watch for irregularities during the session. HackerEarth announced the product from Bengaluru and Sunnyvale on April 14. (prnewswire.com) HackerEarth said a candidate who applies at 11 p.m. can complete an interview before the next workday, and it said one enterprise customer screened more than 2,000 candidates in a single weekend. The company said the interviews use a fixed framework so results are comparable across applicants. (hackerearth.com) Technical hiring platforms already use online coding tests and live coding rooms, which are shared editors where a candidate writes code while an interviewer watches. HackerEarth’s existing FaceCode product supports real-time interviews in more than 40 programming languages and generates interview summaries with artificial intelligence. (hackerearth.com) OnScreen pushes that model earlier in the hiring funnel by replacing some first-round human screens with an automated interview. HackerEarth said the system asks adaptive questions, evaluates reasoning instead of simple recall, and uses identity checks modeled on know-your-customer verification used in financial services. (prnewswire.com) The pitch lands as recruiters sort through a larger volume of applications and more artificial-intelligence-generated resumes. HackerEarth Chief Executive Officer Vikas Aditya said those pressures made early screening harder and increased the risk of missing qualified candidates because interviewers were unavailable. (prnewswire.com) HackerEarth is not a new entrant testing a single feature. The company, founded in 2012, sells technical hiring software for assessments, interviews, and developer engagement, and says its platform is used by more than 500 global enterprises and reaches a developer community of more than 10 million people. (crunchbase.com, hackerearth.com) The company frames the new tool as a way to standardize interviews and reduce interviewer-to-interviewer variation. On its product page, HackerEarth says senior engineers can spend 1 to 2 hours per interview and more than 15 hours a week on screening, which is the labor cost OnScreen is trying to cut. (hackerearth.com) HackerEarth also says the system masks personal details that can influence interviewers and applies the same rubric to every candidate. Those claims will face the usual scrutiny for hiring software, especially around whether automated scoring is fair, accurate, and acceptable to employers and candidates. (hackerearth.com) For now, the company is folding OnScreen into a broader stack that already includes coding assessments and live interviews. The bet is that technical screening, once tied to calendars and interviewer availability, can run continuously instead. (prnewswire.com)