Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
HackerRank vs Maki People
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
Maki People
Maki People is a Paris-based AI hiring platform whose core product is pre-hire assessment and screening of candidate skills, behaviors, and situational judgement at high volume, extended with conversational AI agents for screening, interview support, and scheduling.
Concerning
Assessment
The result
Maki People leads HackerRank on all 7 criteria.
Maki People sits 12 points above HackerRank under rubric v1.0, 67 (D) against 55 (F), with both filed under Assessment. Maki People leads every one of the 7 criteria, HackerRank none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Article 11 Technical Documentation, HackerRank 60 to Maki People 64. FRIA Support is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (HackerRank 35, Maki People 62, 15% weight), but it accounts for only 36% of the weighted advantage Maki People holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- HackerRank0
- Maki People7
- Widest raw gap
- FRIA Support35 vs 62
- Heaviest weighted swing
- FRIA Support15% weight
The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
HackerRank and Maki People are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Screening and Video interview.
Both are in scope of
| Record | HackerRank | Maki People |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | FR |
| Founded | 2009 | 2021 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
FRIA Support
15% weight36% of the movement so far
HackerRank35Maki People624.0 weighted points to Maki People
- 2
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight55% of the movement so far
HackerRank68Maki People802.2 weighted points to Maki People
- 3
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight67% of the movement so far
HackerRank55Maki People641.3 weighted points to Maki People
- 4
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight78% of the movement so far
HackerRank45Maki People551.2 weighted points to Maki People
- 5
Customer Documentation
8% weight86% of the movement so far
HackerRank62Maki People741.0 weighted points to Maki People
- 6
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight94% of the movement so far
HackerRank60Maki People640.8 weighted points to Maki People
- 7
Human Oversight Design
12% weight100% of the movement so far
HackerRank60Maki People660.7 weighted points to Maki People
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -11.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -12 beside that -11.2.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HackerRank minus Maki People, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | HackerRank | Maki People | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 64 | -4 | -0.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 68 | 80 | -12 | -2.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 62 | -27 | -4.0 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 64 | -9 | -1.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 66 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 55 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 74 | -12 | -1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 55F | 67D | -12 | -11.2 |
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 | Maki People | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 14 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 25 | 6 | Audit reportSources 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; Maki People has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for HackerRank and Maki People sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 49 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for HackerRank, across 3 distinct source domains, and 31 for Maki People, across 5 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HackerRank last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Maki People last reviewed
- September 8, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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