Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
HackerRank vs Recruitly
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
Recruitly
Recruitly is an all-in-one ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies. It includes AI candidate matching, which ranks candidates against live jobs and shows its reasons, and AI application review, which scores and explains each applicant against the job spec. It also offers external profile sourcing, CV parsing, an AI phone system and an AI meeting assistant.
Substantial gaps
ATS-integrated
The result
HackerRank leads Recruitly on 4 of the 7 criteria.
HackerRank sits 14 points above Recruitly under rubric v1.0 — 55 against 41 — with HackerRank filed under Assessment and Recruitly under ATS-integrated. HackerRank leads 4 of the 7 criteria and the remaining 3 are level, so Recruitly is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 4 HackerRank leads is Customer Documentation, HackerRank 62 to Recruitly 58. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (HackerRank 68, Recruitly 15) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 66% of the weighted advantage HackerRank holds across the 4 criteria it leads.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- HackerRank4
- Recruitly0
- Level3
- Widest raw gap
- Bias Audit Transparency68 vs 15
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
HackerRank is filed under Assessment AI, Recruitly under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of
Only HackerRank is in scope of
| Record | HackerRank | Recruitly |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Low |
| Headquarters | US | AE |
| Founded | 2009 | 2015 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight66% of the movement so far
HackerRank68Recruitly159.5 weighted points to HackerRank
- 2
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight87% of the movement so far
HackerRank60Recruitly453.0 weighted points to HackerRank
- 3
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight98% of the movement so far
HackerRank55Recruitly451.5 weighted points to HackerRank
- 4
Customer Documentation
8% weight100% of the movement so far
HackerRank62Recruitly580.3 weighted points to HackerRank
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 4 figures above sum to +14.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +14 beside that +14.4.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HackerRank minus Recruitly, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | HackerRank | Recruitly | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 45 | +15 | +3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 68 | 15 | +53 | +9.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 35 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 45 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 45 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 58 | +4 | +0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 55F | 41F | +14 | +14.4 |
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 | Recruitly | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 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 | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 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 | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 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 | 32 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
HackerRank has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; Recruitly has 37 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 32 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for HackerRank sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 55 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for HackerRank, across 3 distinct source domains, and 37 for Recruitly, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HackerRank last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Recruitly last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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