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HackerRank Takes Chakra AI Interviewer GA After 500,000 Beta Interviews With Snowflake and Capgemini

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Summary

HackerRank moved Chakra, its AI interviewer, to general availability on October 5 after a six-month beta that conducted more than 500,000 interviews. Snowflake, Snorkel and Capgemini were early customers; CEO Vivek Ravisankar says Chakra collapses the screen/take-home/engineer rounds into a single sitting that scores reasoning, not just answers. HackerRank reports suspicious-activity flags were 70–80% lower than on its traditional assessments.