HackerRank takes its Chakra AI interviewer generally available after more than 500,000 test interviews, focusing on judgment and AI fluency

What changed

HackerRank made its Chakra AI interviewer generally available to customers on October 5 after roughly six months in beta and more than 500,000 test interviews, with Snowflake, Snorkel and Capgemini among participants. Chakra puts candidates in tasks built around real code repositories with an AI assistant, then asks contextual follow-ups to evaluate critical thinking, judgment and what HackerRank calls AI fluency rather than only the final artifact. HackerRank says suspicious-activity flags were 70%–80% lower than in comparable traditional assessments, a company-reported figure that varied by geography and seniority; humans retain the final hiring decision.