INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
HackerRank, a popular platform for practicing and hosting online coding interviews, today announced that it has acquired Mimir, a
cloud-based service that provides tools for teaching computer science courses
standalone product for the time being
Ravisankar, the co-founder and CEO of HackerRank, told me
acquisition, but Indiana-based Mimir previously raised a total of $2.5 million and had eight employees at the time of the acquisition,
including the three-person executive team.As the companies stress, both focus on allowing developers for a variety of backgrounds to
successfully vie for jobs, no matter where they went to school
the most comprehensive developer assessment platform on the market; allowing students to better prepare for real-world programming and
and expand the talent pool for its customers who are looking to recruit from its users, but Ravisankar also noted that he hopes the combined
strengths of HackerRank and Mimir will allow students to combine their academic learning with market learning
massive online courses but instead focuses on helping teachers and students manage programming projects and assignments
To do so, it offers a full online IDE, as well as support for Jupyter notebooks, as well as more traditional teaching tools for creating
The built-in IDE supports 40 programming languages, including Python, Java and C
Veluvolu, co-founder and CEO of Mimir
