Case Study: Seismic cuts on-site interviews 50% and grows engineering team 35% with HackerRank

How Seismic is Maximizing Recruiting Time

Seismic, a cloud-based sales enablement company that uses ML and AI to deliver personalized content and analytics for sales teams, faced a hiring bottleneck: they were bringing many qualified developers on-site but extending few offers. Candidates often did well on high-level design screens yet lacked the coding skills needed for Seismic’s complex architecture, so the company needed a stronger, earlier screening process to save time and improve hire quality.

Seismic implemented HackerRank’s CodeScreen to assess coding ability before on-site interviews, manually reviewed submissions for code quality and approach, and used CodePair for collaborative pair-programming sessions. This upfront screening and holistic review freed interview time for deeper evaluation, cut on-site interviews by 50%, enabled a 35% increase in their San Diego engineering headcount, and improved alignment between recruiting and engineering so interviews are consistently high-value.

Seismic

Jaime Onofre

Senior Talent Partner