§ The result
SmartRecruiters leads HackerEarth on all 7 criteria.
SmartRecruiters finishes 16 points clear of HackerEarth under rubric v1.0 — 62 (D) against 46 (F) — across the ATS-integrated and Assessment cohorts. SmartRecruiters leads every one of the 7 criteria, HackerEarth none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Human Oversight Design, HackerEarth 56 to SmartRecruiters 62. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (HackerEarth 35, SmartRecruiters 78) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 48% of the weighted advantage SmartRecruiters holds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
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.
Vendor profile
SmartRecruiters
SmartRecruiters is an enterprise applicant tracking system and talent acquisition suite whose AI layer (the Winston assistant plus SmartAssistant/Winston Match) screens, ranks, and matches candidates to requisitions to support recruiter decisions.
§ The record
HackerEarth is filed under Assessment AI, SmartRecruiters under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only HackerEarth is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HackerEarth | SmartRecruiters |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2012 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HackerEarth 35 · SmartRecruiters 78
7.7 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
20% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HackerEarth 55 · SmartRecruiters 70
3.0 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 79% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HackerEarth 32 · SmartRecruiters 45
1.9 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HackerEarth 52 · SmartRecruiters 62
1.5 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HackerEarth 56 · SmartRecruiters 62
0.7 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HackerEarth 42 · SmartRecruiters 48
0.7 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HackerEarth 57 · SmartRecruiters 63
0.5 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -16.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 16.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -16 beside that -16.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HackerEarth minus SmartRecruiters.
| Category | Weight | HackerEarth | SmartRecruiters | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 70 | -15 | -3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 78 | -43 | -7.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 45 | -13 | -1.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 62 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 56 | 62 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 48 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 57 | 63 | -6 | -0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 62 (D) | -16 | -16.1 |
§ 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 | HackerEarth | SmartRecruiters | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 8 | 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 | 1 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 34 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 11 | 2 | 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; SmartRecruiters has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for SmartRecruiters sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 52 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 39 for HackerEarth, across 1 distinct source domain, and 13 for SmartRecruiters, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HackerEarth last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SmartRecruiters last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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