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Sachin Gupta:
ore than 500 companies
across the globe use
MHackerEarth to improve
the quality of their engineering
hires and reduce the time spent by
recruiters on screening candidates.
Over the years, we have also
built a thriving community of
2.5M+ developers that come to
HackerEarth to participate in
hackathons and coding challenges
to assess their skills and compete in
the community.
About The Founder
Sachin, Co-founder of
HackerEarth, is an IIT Roorkee
grad, ex-Googler and now heads
Sales/Marketing/Operations at
HackerEarth. Being a developer by
skill he continues to code in small
amount. He is deeply passionate
about his work and is a fitness
freak.”
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An IIT Roorkee Grad,
Ex-Googler and Now Heads
Sales/Marketing/Operations
at Hackerearth
Our Story own, but that shouldn’t restrict you.
From outside, HackerEarth’s story Developers teaching marketers “
may seem as one of those much programming and sales people
talked about dorm room startups providing design inputs is a
that have shown promise and common sight at HackerEarth.
rapidly growing. While most of Everyone here is an owner of the
that is true, HackerEarth’s story company and we are always open
has been about perseverance and to hearing people who can help us
focus towards one goal - making become better.
Hardships for a Start-up or an
technical recruitment simple and
efficient. And this journey has Entrepreneur in India
been no walk in the park - we Starting up in India has its own set
have had our share of challenges of challenges. Contrary to what we
and we know there are more to may want to believe, India is not
come in the future. yet a mature start-up eco-system,
But HackerEarth’s real story is with only a quarter of population
that of the people who run it. having access to internet. Yes,
From the two college friends who internet connectivity is a big turn
willed an idea to reality, to the down. Also, there are problems
people who put their faith into the like lack of proper distribution
aim of the startup and took it as channels, weaker marketing
their own, HackerEarth is many channels, lesser availability of
stories, of the people who make it. venture capital money and a lack of
Our story is continually changing, support in the ecosystem. However
as the people at HackerEarth keep the biggest challenge that Indian
writing new ones, everyday. entrepreneurs face is psychological.
Work Culture We have typically been a society
averse to taking risk.
As with any growing startup,
there is no restriction to the
work that you should be doing
at HackerEarth. You will have
verticals that you will completely
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