HackerRank Radio

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A podcast for engineering leaders and hiring managers interested in learning about the latest technology and solutions to solve one of businesses' toughest problems today: hiring the right developers. Each episode, HackerRank's CTOs, VPEs, and engineering leads talk about all things hiring with global leaders in various industries — from what makes a world-class interview experience to building a recruitment strategy from scratch to identifying the perfect developers for your team.

  1. Optimizing for Excellence: EY's Modern Approaches to Streamlining Hiring Processes

    03/04/2024

    Optimizing for Excellence: EY's Modern Approaches to Streamlining Hiring Processes

    Welcome to the another episode of HackerRank Radio! In today's episode, we have Tanu Garg, Executive Director at EY, and Thiru Vengadam, Partner at EY. EY is one of the world’s largest professional services networks and has over 350,000 employees worldwide! With employee strength as strong as this, EY faces unique challenges in terms of finding skilled talent, dealing with thousands of candidates for each open role, and more! In this conversation with EY, we uncovered profound insights shared by two distinguished figures from EY, unveiling their approach to shaping the future of talent acquisition in the technology sector. Tune in to learn more!

    53 min

  2. 02/22/2023

    Everything From XaaS to IoT — What’s Next for Tech Leader Cisco?

    Welcome to this episode of HackerRank Radio! Today we're thrilled to have Anil Nair and Suhas Mansingh from Cisco - a company that has evolved from its networking solutions roots to offer state-of-the-art products and services that cover every need of a business. In this episode, we'll delve into their perspectives about heatedly-discussed subjects like cloud-delivered security and also discuss the shiny new and exciting work they're doing in the coming year. Anil is the VP of Engineering in Cisco's Security Business Group, and Suhas is the VP of Software Development in Cisco's Distributed Systems Engineering Group. Tune into this episode as we talk about XaaS, IoT, and our guests tell us — What’s Next for Tech Leader Cisco?

    34 min

  3. 11/17/2022

    Designing for Diversity: How DTCC Crafts Hiring Processes That Stomp Out Bias

    Diversity truly equals excellence at a company — a 2020 report from McKinsey that studied over 1000 companies concluded that there was a positive correlation between how diverse an executive team is, and the company's financial performance. While it's no secret that the world of work today is deluged by layoffs, hiring freezes and an atmosphere of uncertainty, we believe it's a good time to put on our reading glasses, dive in and study what kind of values and teams make a company truly incredible. DTCC's spirited Executive Director of Talent, Blair Goodman recently joined us for a conversation around the same, how DTCC has raised the bar in attracting and cultivating talent, and how they aim to change the status quo of DE&I.

    44 min

  4. 03/04/2022

    How Facebook Live Works: Meta Engineer Gokul Menon Takes us Backstage

    Gokul Menon describes himself as an average nerd working in FAANG (or MANGA now), but we think he’s way above average - a HackerRank All Star. Since graduating from Rutgers University, he’s had a glitzy career with 9 years of development experience in the financial sector as Vice President at Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, and later switching paths to become a Senior Software Engineer at Meta. He’s already spent two years at Meta, where he is a part of a small but mighty team responsible for keeping Facebook Live, alive and kicking.

    42 min

  5. 02/28/2022

    How Optiver Hires Engineers & Scales Large Teams with David Kent

    How do you get sought-after developers to join your team when people haven’t heard of your company? As a proprietary trading firm, Optiver encounters unique hiring challenges in FinTech, a competitive and high-performance industry. David Kent, team lead of the Automated Trading Systems team, shares his first-hand experience building a team of engineers and how he continues to grow it.

    35 min

  6. 02/28/2022

    Digging into the 2018 Developer Skills Report

    To commemorate HackerRank's first Developer Skills Survey, HackerRank's CEO & Cofounder Vivek Ravisankar sat down with veteran VP of engineer Jawahar Malhotra to unpack some of the findings. Jawahar’s scaled up teams for all of Yahoo India, Open Gov, and Tealeaf. In fact, he’s been at the core of the Web's evolution since his work at Netscape in the mid 90s.

    33 min

  7. 02/28/2022

    Gayle Laakmann McDowell Deconstructs the Engineering Interview Process

    Anyone who is involved in the technical hiring process, whether as a hiring manager or candidate, has probably heard of Gayle Laakmann McDowell. She's the author of Cracking the *interview books (Cracking the Coding Interview, Cracking the PM Interview, and Cracking the Tech Career). In this episode, she talks about the rise of interview prep companies, advice for candidates who are out of practice and why there is no perfect interview process.

    26 min

  8. 02/28/2022

    Adobe’s Approach on Hiring Stellar Early Talent with Prasad Rao

    We had a chance to catch up with Prasad Kuchoor Rao, Director of Talent Acquisition at Adobe in India, who comes with a wealth of experience in recruiting early talent for companies like Google and Walmart Labs. Listen to Prasad as he walks us through best practices for finding the right talent on campus, boosting employer brand in universities to attract early talent and more.

    24 min
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About

A podcast for engineering leaders and hiring managers interested in learning about the latest technology and solutions to solve one of businesses' toughest problems today: hiring the right developers. Each episode, HackerRank's CTOs, VPEs, and engineering leads talk about all things hiring with global leaders in various industries — from what makes a world-class interview experience to building a recruitment strategy from scratch to identifying the perfect developers for your team.

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  • Creator
    HackerRank
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2024
  • Episodes
    29
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © HackerRank
  • Show Website
    HackerRank Radio