Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
HackerRank vs Lever
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.
Substantial gaps
Assessment
Lever
Lever is an AI-powered applicant tracking system and recruiting CRM that centralizes sourcing, candidate relationship management, AI candidate matching (Talent Fit), and hiring analytics for high-growth employers.
Substantial gaps
ATS-integrated
The result
HackerRank leads Lever by 6 points.
Under rubric v1.0, HackerRank, filed under Assessment, finishes on 55 and Lever, filed under ATS-integrated, on 49, 6 points apart. Lever takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Data Governance Disclosure among them, against 4 for HackerRank, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency, and 2 are level. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — HackerRank 68, Lever 42 — and at an 18% weight it carries 66% of the weighted advantage HackerRank holds across the 4 criteria on that side of the table.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- HackerRank4
- Lever1
- Level2
- Widest raw gap
- Bias Audit Transparency68 vs 42
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
HackerRank is filed under Assessment AI, Lever under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of
Only HackerRank is in scope of
| Record | HackerRank | Lever |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2009 | 2012 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight62% of the movement so far
HackerRank68Lever424.7 weighted points to HackerRank
- 2
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight84% of the movement so far
HackerRank60Lever521.6 weighted points to HackerRank
- 3
FRIA Support
15% weight90% of the movement so far
HackerRank35Lever320.4 weighted points to HackerRank
- 4
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight96% of the movement so far
HackerRank55Lever580.4 weighted points to Lever
- 5
Customer Documentation
8% weight100% of the movement so far
HackerRank62Lever580.3 weighted points to HackerRank
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to +6.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +6 beside that +6.6.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HackerRank minus Lever, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | HackerRank | Lever | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 52 | +8 | +1.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 68 | 42 | +26 | +4.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 32 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 58 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 45 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 58 | +4 | +0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 55F | 49F | +6 | +6.6 |
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 | HackerRank | Lever | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 14 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 13 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
HackerRank has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; Lever has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for HackerRank and Lever sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 37 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for HackerRank, across 3 distinct source domains, and 19 for Lever, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HackerRank last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Lever last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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