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HackerRank is a platform. You can design and implement your own exercises on HackerRank. We do this at our company; we design real-world problems and even test our own engineers to make sure “we” can pass our own evaluations.

I understand that at many companies, they just use pre-canned questions and all the above criticisms apply. But I don’t think this is the fault of the platform; it’s a conscious choice of the company to do so.