The document presents a case study of Practo's collaboration with Hackerearth to efficiently find qualified backend engineers using a programming challenge. Hackerearth employed an algorithmic challenge with 476 participants to filter candidates, resulting in a successful matching of talent that fit over 80% with the roles offered. The process highlighted the effectiveness of Hackerearth's tools in saving time and ensuring high-quality hires for startups.

1. Helping a startup find
tech talent
The Practo Case Study
HackerEarth

2. The HackerEarth Hiring Challenge
•A programming challenge to help shortlist great
programmers
•Post challenge, HackerEarth’s proprietary matching
engine helps shortlist eligible candidates who’ve per-formed
HackerEarth
well
•A small shortlist of candidates is shared with the com-pany,
hence saving them a lot of time

3. HackerEarth
About Practo
• Practo came to HackerEarth looking to hire talented back end
engineers
• Practo is a company in the healthcare space
• They’re the company behind Practo Ray, an online medical practice
management software
• The software has over 100000 doctors listed and over 30000
monthly appointments

4. Practo’s requirement
• Strong programming skills on any backend language
• Strong computer science basics, databases,OOP concepts
• Knowledge and interest in open source
• Preferably conversant with Nginx configurationand NoSQL
solutions
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5. HackerEarth
The Problem
• Finding backend engineers of a very high calibre
• Making sure that they were current with latest technologies
• Find engineers conversant and passionate about open source
technologies
• Selling the prospect of working at a startup to in demand talent

6. The Practo hiring challenge
• An algorithmic programming challenge
• 5 algorithmic problems to be solved a duration of 4 hours
• Language wasn’t a constraint; any language could be used to
solved the problems
• Test was designed to evaluate computer sciencebasics,
databases, OOP concepts knowledge of participants
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7. Practo hiring challenge in numbers
• Number of participating developers
• Number of developers who got all answers
right
• Total number of submissions
• Total correct compilations
• Candidates with distinction marks
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476
12
2625
2242
25

8. Filtering out the best talent
HackerEarth filtered 25 top candidates
from476 candidates, with no manual effort
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5%
95%

9. The Practo hiring challenge
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Find real
information about
shortlisted candidates
using their
developer profile

10. Language insights
Find multilingual programmers who took your test

11. HackerEarth
The Result
“Finding a good developer is like looking for a needle in a hay-stack.
By using HackerEarth, we have experienced greater than
80% fit between the candidates identified by the platform and the
ones we offered a role at our company.”
- Sri Karthik Sayana, Talent Acquisition at Practo, in an interview
with TechCrunch

12. Hire for your startup using
HackerEarth
contact@HackerEarth.com
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