Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
HackerRank vs SEEK
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
SEEK
SEEK runs employment marketplaces in Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia (SEEK, Jobstreet and Jobsdb), and its seekAi employer tools label and rank applicants as 'high-fit' using a model trained on millions of past hirer shortlisting decisions, target job ads at predicted high-fit candidates, and run AI voice or text pre-screens, recommended shortlists and reference checks through a feature called Assist.
Substantial gaps
Screening
The result
HackerRank takes the total, SEEK takes more of the criteria.
HackerRank holds a 1-point edge over SEEK under rubric v1.0, 55 to 54, across the Assessment and Screening cohorts. SEEK leads more of the criteria, 5 against 2 for HackerRank, yet HackerRank takes Bias Audit Transparency, which carries 18% of the rubric, and the weighted sum with it. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — HackerRank 68, SEEK 40 — and at an 18% weight it carries 92% of the weighted advantage HackerRank holds across the 2 criteria on that side of the table.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- HackerRank2
- SEEK5
- Widest raw gap
- Bias Audit Transparency68 vs 40
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
HackerRank is filed under Assessment AI, SEEK under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of
Only HackerRank is in scope of
| Record | HackerRank | SEEK |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | AU |
| Founded | 2009 | 1997 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight55% of the movement so far
HackerRank68SEEK405.0 weighted points to HackerRank
- 2
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight76% of the movement so far
HackerRank60SEEK702.0 weighted points to SEEK
- 3
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight84% of the movement so far
HackerRank55SEEK600.8 weighted points to SEEK
- 4
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight91% of the movement so far
HackerRank45SEEK500.6 weighted points to SEEK
- 5
FRIA Support
15% weight96% of the movement so far
HackerRank35SEEK320.4 weighted points to HackerRank
- 6
Human Oversight Design
12% weight98% of the movement so far
HackerRank60SEEK620.2 weighted points to SEEK
- 7
Customer Documentation
8% weight100% of the movement so far
HackerRank62SEEK640.2 weighted points to SEEK
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +1.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +1 beside that +1.7.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HackerRank minus SEEK, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | HackerRank | SEEK | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 70 | -10 | -2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 68 | 40 | +28 | +5.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 32 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 60 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 62 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 50 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 64 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 55F | 54F | +1 | +1.7 |
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 | SEEK | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 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 domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 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 | 23 | 7 | 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; SEEK has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 23 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for HackerRank and SEEK sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 48 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for HackerRank, across 3 distinct source domains, and 30 for SEEK, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HackerRank last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SEEK last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
HireAIScore scores are editorial research, not legal advice, and no vendor pays for placement, scoring or removal — see the methodology, conflicts policy and terms.