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The Interview Startup That Learned to Guard the Exam Room
Talview began by making interviews easier to conduct. Now it tries to answer the harder question behind a remote exam or hire: can you prove that the right person earned the result?
The Résumé Is Becoming Fiction. Criteria Wants Hiring Managers to Read the Signals
AI can polish a résumé in seconds, but it cannot make the underlying candidate better at the job. Criteria is betting that structured tests, interviews and a trail of 6 billion data points can tell employers what the application no longer does.
HireVue Made the Interview Software. Then It Had to Explain the Machine.
The Utah company turned a missed campus interview into a global hiring platform. Its next act is harder: sell the speed of AI while proving that every score deserves to shape a person’s future.
HackerRank
HackerRank is a technical skills platform that helps companies screen, interview, and hire developers based on what they can actually build rather than what their resume claims. Founded in 2009 by Vivek Ravisankar and Hari Karunanidhi, the company runs a two-sided model: a community where millions of developers practice coding challenges, and an enterprise product that lets 3,000+ companies - including a large share of the Fortune 100 - assess candidates with real-world coding tests, live pair-programming interviews, and, increasingly, AI-assisted evaluation and proctoring.
Gyfted
Gyfted is a Stanford-connected, remote-first HR-tech company that builds psychometric and cognitive assessments powered by behavioral science and AI. Its free consumer quizzes (Big Five, EQ, DISC, cognitive ability) draw millions of test-takers via organic search, while its B2B software helps founders, recruiters and team leaders screen candidates and hire for role and culture fit. Co-founded in 2020 by CEO Robert Kowalski with a team that includes Stanford GSB psychometrician Michal Kosinski as an adviser, Gyfted has raised roughly $1.3M in early funding.