§ The result
HackerRank leads Emmersion on all 7 criteria.
HackerRank sits 11 points above Emmersion under rubric v1.0, 55 against 44, with both filed under Assessment. Of the 7 criteria Emmersion wins none, and the narrowest lead HackerRank holds is on Customer Documentation, Emmersion 60 to HackerRank 62. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Emmersion 28, HackerRank 68) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 65% of the weighted advantage HackerRank holds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Emmersion
Emmersion, Rosetta Stone's assessment division within IXL Learning, sells AI-scored adaptive TrueNorth speaking and writing tests and WebCAPE reading and grammar exams. They rate language proficiency on a 0-10 scale mapped to CEFR and ACTFL and are used for pre-employment screening, checking employees' language skills and placing students.
Vendor profile
HackerRank
HackerRank is a technical skills assessment platform for developer hiring that uses coding tests, interviews, and AI-based features (question generation, ML plagiarism/AI-code detection, and image-analysis proctoring) to evaluate candidates.
§ The record
Emmersion and HackerRank are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Emmersion | HackerRank |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 2009 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Emmersion 28 · HackerRank 68
7.2 weighted points to HackerRank
12% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Emmersion 53 · HackerRank 60
0.8 weighted points to HackerRank
12% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Emmersion 38 · HackerRank 45
0.8 weighted points to HackerRank
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Emmersion 30 · HackerRank 35
0.8 weighted points to HackerRank
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Emmersion 50 · HackerRank 55
0.8 weighted points to HackerRank
20% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Emmersion 57 · HackerRank 60
0.6 weighted points to HackerRank
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Emmersion 60 · HackerRank 62
0.2 weighted points to HackerRank
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -11.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -11 beside that -11.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Emmersion minus HackerRank.
| Category | Weight | Emmersion | HackerRank | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 57 | 60 | -3 | -0.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 68 | -40 | -7.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 55 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 53 | 60 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 45 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 62 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 44 (F) | 55 (F) | -11 | -11.1 |
§ Evidence
Cited sources and documented absences, criterion by criterion.
An absence is a finding, not a blank: the reviewer looked for a named artefact and recorded that it is not located. Where a source sits is a fact about hosting only.
| Criterion | Weight | Emmersion | HackerRank | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 35 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 14 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Emmersion has 40 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 35 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; HackerRank has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Emmersion and HackerRank sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 58 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 40 for Emmersion, across 5 distinct source domains, and 18 for HackerRank, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Emmersion last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HackerRank last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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