Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
HackerEarth vs Handshake
HackerEarth
HackerEarth is a technical-hiring platform that auto-scores coding assessments under AI proctoring, runs FaceCode live coding interviews with AI-generated summaries, and offers OnScreen, an AI video-avatar interviewer that scores candidates against a fixed rubric.
Substantial gaps
Assessment
Handshake
Handshake is an early-career recruiting network whose employer tools use AI to rank applicants against employer-set criteria, find and message matching students and graduates, and target job promotions.
Substantial gaps
Screening
The result
4 points separate Handshake and HackerEarth.
Handshake (Screening) edges HackerEarth (Assessment) by 4 points under rubric v1.0, 50 to 46. HackerEarth takes 2 of the 7 criteria, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them, against 5 for Handshake, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (HackerEarth 35, Handshake 52) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 61% of the weighted advantage Handshake holds across the 5 criteria it leads.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- HackerEarth2
- Handshake5
- Widest raw gap
- Bias Audit Transparency35 vs 52
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
HackerEarth is filed under Assessment AI, Handshake under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of
Only HackerEarth is in scope of
| Record | HackerEarth | Handshake |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2012 | 2014 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight46% of the movement so far
HackerEarth35Handshake523.1 weighted points to Handshake
- 2
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight66% of the movement so far
HackerEarth55Handshake481.4 weighted points to HackerEarth
- 3
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight78% of the movement so far
HackerEarth52Handshake570.8 weighted points to Handshake
- 4
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight88% of the movement so far
HackerEarth42Handshake480.7 weighted points to Handshake
- 5
FRIA Support
15% weight93% of the movement so far
HackerEarth32Handshake300.3 weighted points to HackerEarth
- 6
Human Oversight Design
12% weight96% of the movement so far
HackerEarth56Handshake580.2 weighted points to Handshake
- 7
Customer Documentation
8% weight100% of the movement so far
HackerEarth57Handshake600.2 weighted points to Handshake
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -3.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -4 beside that -3.3.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HackerEarth minus Handshake, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | HackerEarth | Handshake | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 48 | +7 | +1.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 52 | -17 | -3.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 30 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 57 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 56 | 58 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 48 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 57 | 60 | -3 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 46F | 50F | -4 | -3.3 |
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 | HackerEarth | Handshake | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 8 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 34 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 27 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
HackerEarth has 39 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 34 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Handshake has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Handshake sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 73 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 39 for HackerEarth, across 1 distinct source domain, and 34 for Handshake, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HackerEarth last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Handshake last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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