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Ignoring that they are just tools to create a person who can regurgitate answers from Cracking the Coding Interview.

I recently took a first stage coding interview on HackerRank and something I like from it was the ability the company had to make the hackerrank environment work for what they were trying to do. This particular exam, instead of me having to balance a tree or traverse a graph, both skills in which most engineers don't need, Gave me a set of integration tests, an API spec, and the way they needed a server started in order for the integration tests to run. I thought this was actually a pretty cool way of having it setup on HackerRank's part, as it was a coding test that actually quantified my ability at a skill that you would need in the role I was applying for.