Internships in software development are good for both the company and the interns. As a developer, internship projects teach you how to build…

Did you know there exists a global study where five of the top ten spots are filled by India? You heard that right!…

March 8 is International Women’s Day (IWD), which is just around the corner. On this day, the United Nations wants the world to specially celebrate women’s…

We’ve got camps arguing that where you go to college makes all the difference, and then we’ve got the opposition who insist that…

Did you know that the Indian Space Research Organisation wants to “launch a single rocket carrying 83 satellites” in 2017? That would be…

It’s common knowledge that India has a lot of educated people. That’s wonderful. But the lacuna casts a pall over the mood. Reality…

Defining, describing, and drawing you a picture… I’m going to use the most popular example to define a full-stack developer. If there’s one…

President Trump signed two bills in February 2017, aiming to boost the number of women in STEM. He said, “Currently, only one in…

The application of big data technologies in banking is highly widespread. From fraud detection and prevention, to risk management, big data is helping…

Have you ever understood the process of learning? How you learn how to perform a particular task? How do you learn to play…

It was a Monday morning and at 11 am sharp, a billionaire walked into the HackerEarth office. This man has helped build a…

There are about 20 major stock exchanges around the world, with each country having many more regulated stock exchanges. A large stock exchange…

For the longest time, game developers have been part of a closed community, mostly working for select organizations, specific target audience and on…

“Engineers build the world” This doesn’t mean that everyone who’s qualified to be an engineer does so. Engineering is a mindset. A mindset…

  To the uninitiated, the word Linux is synonymous with open source. This is because Linux, an open source OS had rose to…

  “The Secret lives of Hackathon junkies“ The above link was intentionally put there. This article has been shared by many prominent hackathon…

  Over the last 20 years the word “hacker” has been misconstrued by the media and by those who weren’t a part of…

It  is said that “A man is defined by the work he does”. If we are to go by this saying, then Dr. A….

Honeywell’s mobility hackathon has just concluded on HackerEarth, and we have three winners. Congrats to all winners! Top performers in the hackathon have…

This is already one of the biggest hackathons that we’ve ever conducted. But with big things, there will be some glitches. There were…

  It is with a heavy heart that we’re bidding farewell, to one of the first challenge series that we launched on HackerEarth….

For those who’ve been following the HackerEarth platform over the past few months, you might have noticed a neat little product that we…

It was back in 1982, when researchers at Carnegie Mellon University made a modified cola vending machine, which could report its inventory and…

Singapore, the city-state, has the reputation of being the home to one of the most conscientious people in the world. They’re hard workers…

  Of all the challenges that we run on HackerEarth, the monthly challenges have been one of the most popular ones. Since 2013,…

ThoughtWorks is one of the coolest IT solutions companies out there today. Apart from being an able software builders, ThoughtWorks is one of…

On a lazy Bangalore afternoon, I was scrolling down my Facebook news feed, when I saw this post by Kasey Robinson.   I…

There are no men and women, there are only people. Similarly, in the IT industry, there should be no women or men, only…

Wanting to feel valued and wanting to be the center of attention are subtly different. While both are attention-craving behavior, the latter doesn’t…

Mark Zuckerberg once said that coding is the closest thing to a super power today. If you think about it, it really is!…

If you were to go to an engineering college today, you will often see electronics engineers being placed in software companies. You’d even…

Positive people are a pleasure to deal with. Their demeanor and approach to is infectious! It is the same positivity that helps them advance…

The hackathon, from it’s humble beginnings in small companies and college common rooms, has meteorically risen to prominence over the last decade. Never…

So the question is Python Vs Ruby. Before we actually make a choice on this, let’s just say that there is a lot…

The 15th of September is celebrated as Engineer’s Day in memory of India’s engineering icon M. Visvesvaraya. A highly disciplined engineer, he was…

Mobile apps have well and truly arrived and the demand for mobile application developers is now higher than what it has ever been….

I recently came across this really good video by outsidebox.com where the crew interviewed some top engineers, artists and writers from the gaming…

In other news, the 10th edition of Google’s prestigious Google Summer of Code program is about to kick off and India will be…

Okay. Let’s talk about the elephant in the room. Dress codes. Not having them is a cool thing. Especially in a millennial context, to talk…

A few months ago, we launched a private Beta of the developer profile. This was not just any product for us – it…

Late last year and early this year, there was a huge campaign by code.org, which brought together the biggest names in the field of…

No matter what kind of company you’re running today, the use of technology is inevitable. You’re either using some kind of technology product…

No company is flawless. As the promoter of a company, you can never keep everyone happy. There will always be something that you…

Disclaimer: This post is nothing but a light read for Valentine’s day. Women, please don’t take up arms. (That doesn’t mean some of…

  It all starts by trying to solve a day to day solution. But as time moves on, the solution becomes the problem….

A tech interview is one of the most strenuous things that a programmer can be put through. Companies like Google and Facebook put…

If you were to take a list of the top 20-30 programmers in the world, you will quickly find that between them, they’ve been…

Have you ever seen a school of fish? In the ocean a large group of fish move together, as if they were one…

That’s obvious right? I mean, who wouldn’t want an iPad. But the point I’m trying to make here is bigger. As a HR…

The last twenty years or so has been a testament to individuals or a small group of individuals looking at a way particular…

Without being a sexist, if I were to ask you the number of intelligent women programmers that you know of, how many do…

When services like Codeacademy launched, its implications to the world of computer education was quite immense. There was now, a code editor on…

The way in which something as brick and mortar (quite literally!) like real estate has converged with technology has been quite remarkable. In…

A business based on missed calls? Well, for anyone who’d start something like that, most people would have said, ‘good luck’. But when…

The most practical times to start up is either before you have children and after they’ve left home. However, in the past few…

I was speaking with a professor at a university, which had an abysmal placement record. It was a touchy topic but I had…

About two years ago, David Heinemeier Hansson, founder of ruby on rails and partner at 37Signals, wrote a really strong worded piece on…