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We're building assessments that feel like the actual job, with the tools you'd use on it. x.com/rvivek/status/…

Cursor’s founder on why AI makes the next engineer more valuable, not less. The New York Times spends ~$150M-$200M a year on software R&D, even though most people do not think of it as a software company. Professional software engineering is still far from solved because building a new codebase is not the same as safely migrating an existing system like Rippling’s 30M-line codebase, with years of logic, dependencies, and customer workflows behind it. Cursor’s 20-person support team handling millions of daily users clearly shows that AI leverage for small teams is real. But the scope of software work is still vast, so the ROI of adding the next strong engineer is higher, not lower.

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@rvivek @SteveAldrin_ @SteveAldrin_ FTW

If you're struggling to land your next job, do this: > stop grinding LeetCode all day > learn to work with agents > build cool stuff, post it publicly, and tag the CEO > don’t let AI mass apply for you > curate 10 strong applications instead of sending 100 lazy ones > cold email with what you can do, what you’ve done, and what problem you’ll solve for them Steve cold emailed me like this. Now he works at HackerRank. It works. I promise.

If you unfortunately get laid off, don’t just write the “I was impacted” LinkedIn post. But also create value out of what you learned. Vasilios Syrakis was laid off from Atlassian after 8 years. Instead of only posting that he was open to work, he made a 40-minute video explaining the systems he had worked on. That video went viral. He got heavy inbound interest. His outreach started getting “100% yes.” And now when a recruiter searches his name, that video becomes the first impression. If you get laid off, teach the system you built, it might not go as viral, but it'd turn your work into proof. And I'd hire a person like that.

Everyone on the TL is still debating LeetCode interviews. We think that fight is already over. Even the next version, interviews with an AI chat inside an IDE, is starting to feel dated. That is not how engineers work anymore. They are not just writing code with a chatbot on the side. They are working in agentic development environments, where the agent sits at the center of the workflow. So we are rebuilding the interview around that. Real code repos. With actual tasks. In the same environment engineers work in today.

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The June edition of HackerRank Orchestrate brought together thousands of builders to design, build, and ship AI agents in just 24 hours. Congratulations to our winners! #1 Sristee Shrivastava #2 Hitakshi Arora #3 Swayam Mishra Thanks to everyone who joined us and made this edition such a success.

Rest of the world: India can't build it's own AI model India: hold my Sarvam

@SuryavirKapur We're glad!

@hackerrank I recently did this for 2 OAs with HackerRank, amazing experience, very well executed!!

Coding interviews are starting to look less like LeetCode and more like actual engineering work. Companies get a sharper signal on the skills developers need today. Candidates get an interview that looks closer to the work they will actually do on the job. This is where technical hiring is headed.

@mrd5646 @zeusdotdev @Cisco Hey, we apologise for the trouble during the assessment yesterday. It's being re-run on Saturday and Tuesday. Please look forward to an email with your test details shortly.

@zeusdotdev @hackerrank @Cisco Same issue the 504 bad gateway and the test is not loading the system crashed all of sudden and couldn't start the test @Cisco @hackerrank My worst OA couldn't even start that

@hackerrank @Cisco mid test i get this. The test is not even opening now and i lost time too. What do you have to say? This is just unacceptable behaviour!!!!

@zeusdotdev @Cisco Hey, we apologise for the trouble during the assessment yesterday. It's being re-run on Saturday and Tuesday. Please look forward to an email with your test details shortly.

@vroon101 @rvivek @elonmusk We think so too!

@rvivek @elonmusk I myself gave a similar programming test for a hackerrank position and have to say this will probably be how candidates are evaluated in the coming years

Got called a lightweight Cursor by a candidate on Reddit. Should I be ready for my $60B acquisition @elonmusk? Anyway, glad to see technical interviewing changing!

@suraj_markup @rvivek @elonmusk $45B and we have a deal

@rvivek @elonmusk $30B because you are lightweight...

Cursor's way of making its first 20 hires was through community. They started with 20 users they hand-onboarded one by one. Most of them actually left, they didn't like it, and a few even ghosted. But a couple of people stayed, and that became a community in a Discord server. Cursor hired many of its early team straight out of that server. Early users as hires are very powerful.

Prompt: Claude make Lionel Messi, make no mistakes

Both are very talented people. God Bless!