HackerRank

Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2012–2024), in 10 threads.

People raised many different problems with HackerRank, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 10 complaints

Hard to find problems the user is interested in2024-12-27
Platform has bad UX/UI, making it hard to use2022-04-20
Poorly described problems with no feedback on which inputs fail2020-12-04
Problem statement requires scrolling back and forth; editor is barely usable and slows coding2019-04-01
Copying and pasting from a text editor into the textbox is problematic2016-10-29
Test platforms have horrible UIs that make the assessment frustrating to complete2016-02-15
GitHub sign-in fails repeatedly with unauthorized credentials error and hangs on submission2012-12-14
Links at the bottom open in the current tab, losing the user's work2012-11-19
Password rejected at signup, then signup says email taken and login fails2012-06-29
Unclear password prompt during sign-up; can't enter a password to proceed2012-06-29