§ The result
2 points separate HackerRank and Spark Hire.
HackerRank (Assessment) edges Spark Hire (Video interview) by 2 points under rubric v1.0, 55 to 53. HackerRank leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Spark Hire leads 3, including Data Governance Disclosure. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Post-Market Monitoring (HackerRank 45, Spark Hire 38) and Bias Audit Transparency at 18% (HackerRank 68, Spark Hire 62), the second being 35% of the weighted advantage HackerRank holds across the 4 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
Spark Hire
Spark Hire is a hiring platform combining one-way (async) and live video interviewing with an applicant tracking system (via its Comeet acquisition), and adds AI features that score and rank candidates' resumes and one-way video responses to help recruiters prioritize submissions.
§ The record
HackerRank is filed under Assessment AI, Spark Hire under Video interview AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HackerRank | Spark Hire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2009 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 26% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HackerRank 68 · Spark Hire 62
1.1 weighted points to HackerRank
12% weight · 45% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HackerRank 45 · Spark Hire 38
0.8 weighted points to HackerRank
15% weight · 63% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HackerRank 35 · Spark Hire 30
0.8 weighted points to HackerRank
15% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HackerRank 55 · Spark Hire 60
0.8 weighted points to Spark Hire
20% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HackerRank 60 · Spark Hire 58
0.4 weighted points to HackerRank
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HackerRank 60 · Spark Hire 62
0.2 weighted points to Spark Hire
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HackerRank 62 · Spark Hire 64
0.2 weighted points to Spark Hire
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +1.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +2 beside that +1.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HackerRank minus Spark Hire.
| Category | Weight | HackerRank | Spark Hire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 68 | 62 | +6 | +1.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 30 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 60 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 62 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 38 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 64 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 55 (F) | 53 (F) | +2 | +1.9 |
§ 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 | Spark Hire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate 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 | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 16 | 4 | 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; Spark Hire has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for HackerRank and Spark Hire sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 38 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for HackerRank, across 3 distinct source domains, and 20 for Spark Hire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HackerRank last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Spark Hire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next