§ The result
1 point separates Workday Recruiting AI and HackerRank.
Workday Recruiting AI (ATS-integrated) edges HackerRank (Assessment) by 1 point under rubric v1.0, 56 to 55. Workday Recruiting AI leads 3 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while HackerRank leads 2, including Bias Audit Transparency, and 2 are level. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — HackerRank 60, Workday Recruiting AI 70 — and at a 20% weight it carries 70% of the weighted advantage Workday Recruiting AI holds across the 3 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
Workday Recruiting AI
AI features built into Workday Recruiting, including candidate-skill matching and recruiter productivity tools, surfaced inside the Workday ATS.
§ The record
HackerRank is filed under Assessment AI, Workday Recruiting AI under ATS-integrated 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 | Workday Recruiting AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2009 | 2005 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 36% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HackerRank 60 · Workday Recruiting AI 70
2.0 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
18% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HackerRank 68 · Workday Recruiting AI 60
1.4 weighted points to HackerRank
12% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HackerRank 45 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
1.2 weighted points to HackerRank
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HackerRank 60 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
0.6 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HackerRank 62 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
0.2 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to -0.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.5 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 -0.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HackerRank minus Workday Recruiting AI.
| Category | Weight | HackerRank | Workday Recruiting AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 70 | -10 | -2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 68 | 60 | +8 | +1.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 35 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 65 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 35 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 65 | -3 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 55 (F) | 56 (F) | -1 | -0.2 |
§ 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 | Workday Recruiting AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | 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 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 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 | 2 | 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 | 9 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
HackerRank has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; Workday Recruiting AI has 11 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 2 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 29 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for HackerRank, across 3 distinct source domains, and 11 for Workday Recruiting AI, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HackerRank last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Workday Recruiting AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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