April'26 Release

The best developers today don't just write code. They orchestrate agents. Here's everything we're shipping to help you hire, assess, and upskill them. 1/ AI Assistant for Data Science Questions Assess data science candidates in the same AI-assisted IDE they already know and love, where they can analyze notebooks, understand code, and troubleshoot in real time. 2/ Object Detection in Webcam Feed Understand if candidates used unauthorized devices, including mobile phones and tablets, during assessments. Detected objects in webcam feeds appear in reports and session replay to give you the full picture of a candidate’s assessment. 3/ Get sharper insights from Chakra HackerRank's AI interviewer, Chakra, runs structured interviews like your best interviewer would. Updates include structured 5-point scoring in reports that integrate directly with ATS platforms, Greenhouse and Ashby. 4/ AI-Powered Mock Interviews Developers can practice AI Fluency and System Design, two key skills for the AI era, using Chakra's voice interface on HackerRank Community. 5/ Code Repository Question Creation Hire developers using real-world problems tailored to your stack. Upload your custom code repository, and generate assessments with AI, complete with test cases and run configurations. 6/ Custom Certifications from HackerRank Tests Import tests from Screen directly into SkillUp as certifications, and build learning paths and certification requirements specific to your organization without any support requests. Check out the full release at hackerrank.com/release/apr-2026