§ The result
HackerRank leads SeekOut on all 7 criteria.
HackerRank finishes 21 points clear of SeekOut under rubric v1.0 — 55 against 34 — across the Assessment and Sourcing cohorts. HackerRank leads every one of the 7 criteria and 5 of them by 20 raw points or more, Bias Audit Transparency among them; SeekOut leads none. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (HackerRank 68, SeekOut 40, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 24% of the weighted advantage HackerRank holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
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.
Vendor profile
SeekOut
Sourcing platform aggregating public profile data into a searchable talent index, with AI-assisted candidate matching and outreach.
§ The record
HackerRank is filed under Assessment AI, SeekOut under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only HackerRank is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HackerRank | SeekOut |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2009 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 24% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HackerRank 68 · SeekOut 40
5.0 weighted points to HackerRank
20% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HackerRank 60 · SeekOut 35
5.0 weighted points to HackerRank
15% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HackerRank 55 · SeekOut 35
3.0 weighted points to HackerRank
12% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HackerRank 45 · SeekOut 25
2.4 weighted points to HackerRank
8% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HackerRank 62 · SeekOut 35
2.2 weighted points to HackerRank
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HackerRank 60 · SeekOut 45
1.8 weighted points to HackerRank
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HackerRank 35 · SeekOut 25
1.5 weighted points to HackerRank
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +20.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 20.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +21 beside that +20.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HackerRank minus SeekOut.
| Category | Weight | HackerRank | SeekOut | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 35 | +25 | +5.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 68 | 40 | +28 | +5.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 25 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 35 | +20 | +3.0 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 45 | +15 | +1.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 25 | +20 | +2.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 35 | +27 | +2.2 |
| Total | 100% | 55 (F) | 34 (F) | +21 | +20.9 |
§ 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 | SeekOut | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 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 | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 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 | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 14 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 4 | 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; SeekOut has 9 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 5 with a source URL, 4 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 27 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for HackerRank, across 3 distinct source domains, and 9 for SeekOut, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HackerRank last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SeekOut last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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