The result

4 points separate HackerRank and SHL.

Under rubric v1.0, HackerRank and SHL finish 4 points apart, 55 to 51, as two Assessment entries. SHL takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Data Governance Disclosure among them, against 5 for HackerRank, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency, and 1 is level. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (HackerRank 68, SHL 50) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 65% of the weighted advantage HackerRank holds across the 5 criteria it leads.

Criteria won

7 criteria

  • HackerRank5
  • SHL1
  • Level1
Widest raw gap
Bias Audit Transparency68 vs 50
Heaviest weighted swing
Bias Audit Transparency18% weight

The record

Categories, scope and company facts.

HackerRank and SHL are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Screening and Video interview.

RecordHackerRankSHL
Price tierEnterpriseEnterprise
HeadquartersUSGB
Founded20091977

What decides it

The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.

  1. Bias Audit Transparency

    18% weight60% of the movement so far

    HackerRank68
    SHL50

    3.2 weighted points to HackerRank

  2. FRIA Support

    15% weight73% of the movement so far

    HackerRank35
    SHL30

    0.8 weighted points to HackerRank

  3. Post-Market Monitoring

    12% weight84% of the movement so far

    HackerRank45
    SHL40

    0.6 weighted points to HackerRank

  4. Data Governance Disclosure

    15% weight93% of the movement so far

    HackerRank55
    SHL58

    0.4 weighted points to SHL

  5. Human Oversight Design

    12% weight97% of the movement so far

    HackerRank60
    SHL58

    0.2 weighted points to HackerRank

  6. Customer Documentation

    8% weight100% of the movement so far

    HackerRank62
    SHL60

    0.2 weighted points to HackerRank

Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +4.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +4 beside that +4.5.

Category-by-category

Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.

Δ is HackerRank minus SHL, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.

CategoryWeightHackerRankSHLΔ rawΔ weighted
Article 11 Technical Documentation20%6060--
Bias Audit Transparency18%6850+18+3.2
FRIA Support15%3530+5+0.8
Data Governance Disclosure15%5558-3-0.4
Human Oversight Design12%6058+2+0.2
Post-Market Monitoring12%4540+5+0.6
Customer Documentation8%6260+2+0.2
Total100%55F51F+4+4.5

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.

CriterionWeightHackerRankSHL
CitedAbsencesAudit / hostingCitedAbsencesAudit / hosting
Article 11 Technical Documentation20%21Sources on the vendor's own domain21Sources on the vendor's own domain
Bias Audit Transparency18%30Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain21Sources on the vendor's own domain
FRIA Support15%11Sources on the vendor's own domain11Sources on the vendor's own domain
Data Governance Disclosure15%11Sources on the vendor's own domain30Sources on the vendor's own domain
Human Oversight Design12%20Sources on the vendor's own domain20Sources on the vendor's own domain
Post-Market Monitoring12%30Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain21Sources on the vendor's own domain
Customer Documentation8%21Sources on the vendor's own domain30Sources on the vendor's own domain
All criteria100%144Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain154Sources on the vendor's own domain

HackerRank has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; SHL has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 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 37 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for HackerRank, across 3 distinct source domains, and 19 for SHL, across 1 distinct source domain.

Rubric
v1.0
HackerRank last reviewed
June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
SHL last reviewed
June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team

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