Let’s face it: cheating is a problem. Candidates often submit embellished resumes and share your in-person interview questions on line. I spent five seconds searching for questions asked during Google’s interview and I got a beautiful list of 140 questions! Similarly, responses to the classic  “FizzBuzz” test can be found all over the Internet. However, Interviewstreet has created a powerful tool to help our customer’s identify and report on candidate plagiarism.

We’re proud to introduce the Interviewstreet Plagiarism Detection Engine. For Enterprise customers, reports will state in plain English whether plagiarism was detected.

If you want to get into the code to see the similarities for yourself, we provide our users with the option to compare the candidate’s code to the other matching responses.

It’s important to point out that this is not an “absolute” decision. The Plagiarism Detection Engine identifies responses that a have a high degree of similarity between candidates, flags them and prompts you to review them. This is just one of things Interviewstreet is doing to make recruiting technical talent easier.

Hello World!

We’ve launched a new interface for the Recruit tool and we wanted to make sure you were aware of the changes. This is primarily a cosmetic event: much of the work that was done was intended to make Recruit easier to use.  However, it sets the stage for future changes.

Some Highlights:

Single Page: The first thing you will notice is that this is now a single page application. All of the tests in your account, your settings, etc, are all conveniently located on one side of the screen. Start by selecting your choice on the left and work your way to the right until you find what you need.

New Dashboard. All of your tests will now be laid out in a one view. You’ll be able to easily view their statistics and invite new candidates.

Better Control: With this update, managing the settings associated with each test is much easier. Just select the item on the left that you need to interact with. You can easily switch back and forth between the menus without changing your context.

There are some great new features coming so stay tuned… This is just the beginning. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to us.

Love it? Hate it? Tell us: support@interviewstreet.com.

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Why should your company use Interviewstreet to screen programmers? Hundreds of companies are already using Interviewstreet to streamline their hiring process… saving hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars.

Take a look at this quick video we’ve made that explains the whole process.

Want to learn more? Click on Interviewstreet.com to create a free account and get started!

Tl;dr: Announcing our new site for coding challenges: HackerRank. Signup today and get ready for the next CodeSprint on HackerRank: The Back-to-School CodeSprint on Feb 2, 12:00 pm PST

Our CodeSprints have been a great success! We have hosted some amazing problems, but they were all within one category: Algorithmic challenges. Also, our site was focused on people looking for jobs, but there are many reasons to compete in online hackathons.

Announcing Our New Site: HackerRank
We wanted to build something bigger and more engaging. The result is HackerRank. HackerRank will be the home for real-world challenges within Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Image Processing, Network Security and many more fields. We started with Artificial Intelligence, but we plan to have challenges from any field one could wish for!

More than just jobs
Our focus is building an engaged community of programmers in many different domains. Those who wish to, can use our site to connect with some great companies, but that is purely opt-in. You won’t be contacted for any hiring opportunities unless you express interest, and we will never spam or give out any of your information.

Hacking For Fun
At HackerRank, we want to make programming fun and we take that seriously For example, when you submit your bot in a challenge, we don’t just give your results. We let you view every game the bot plays, both as a list of moves and as an animated game! Stay tuned as we expand to many more domains in Computer Science.

Moving to HackerRank
We are moving all the challenges from InterviewStreet to HackerRank. Your submissions, scores will be unaffected and the whole process shift will be seamless. You can login to HackerRank with your credentials and continue solving challenges here. This will let all hackers from diverse fields compete and code together on one site, so everyone can learn more and have more fun.

CodeSprint-4
To celebrate this occasion, we are hosting our fourth CodeSprint at HackerRank - The HackerRank Back-To-School CodeSprint will have different types of challenges which is going to be really engaging. The companies participating is an ever expanding list and we’ll keep adding as we signup companies. You can checkout the list here

It’ll be a 24 hour contest starting Feb 2, 12:00pm PST. Join now.

HackerRank is going to be huge, much bigger than what Interviewstreet could achieve and I welcome you all to be a part of it.