Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
HackerEarth vs Ribbon
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
Ribbon
Ribbon is an AI recruiter that runs voice and video screening interviews with applicants around the clock, scores each interview against default and custom rubrics, ranks candidates for recruiter review, and syncs the results to 60+ applicant tracking systems.
Substantial gaps
Screening
The result
3 points separate HackerEarth and Ribbon.
HackerEarth (Assessment) edges Ribbon (Screening) by 3 points under rubric v1.0, 46 to 43. The 7 criteria split 4 to 3 in favour of HackerEarth: HackerEarth is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Ribbon on Bias Audit Transparency. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (HackerEarth 55, Ribbon 42) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 72% of the weighted advantage HackerEarth holds across the 4 criteria it leads.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- HackerEarth4
- Ribbon3
- Widest raw gap
- Article 11 Technical Documentation55 vs 42
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Article 11 Technical Documentation20% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
HackerEarth is filed under Assessment AI, Ribbon under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Video interview.
Both are in scope of
| Record | HackerEarth | Ribbon |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | US | CA |
| Founded | 2012 | 2020 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight59% of the movement so far
HackerEarth55Ribbon422.6 weighted points to HackerEarth
- 2
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight73% of the movement so far
HackerEarth42Ribbon370.6 weighted points to HackerEarth
- 3
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight85% of the movement so far
HackerEarth35Ribbon380.5 weighted points to Ribbon
- 4
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight92% of the movement so far
HackerEarth52Ribbon500.3 weighted points to HackerEarth
- 5
FRIA Support
15% weight95% of the movement so far
HackerEarth32Ribbon330.1 weighted points to Ribbon
- 6
Human Oversight Design
12% weight98% of the movement so far
HackerEarth56Ribbon550.1 weighted points to HackerEarth
- 7
Customer Documentation
8% weight100% of the movement so far
HackerEarth57Ribbon580.1 weighted points to Ribbon
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +2.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +3 beside that +2.9.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HackerEarth minus Ribbon, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | HackerEarth | Ribbon | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 42 | +13 | +2.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 38 | -3 | -0.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 33 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 50 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 56 | 55 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 37 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 57 | 58 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 46F | 43F | +3 | +2.9 |
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 | Ribbon | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 8 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 34 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 31 | 4 | Sources 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; Ribbon has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Ribbon sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 74 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 39 for HackerEarth, across 1 distinct source domain, and 35 for Ribbon, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HackerEarth last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Ribbon last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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