GenAI Terms
Developers & GenAI
Responsible AI
HackerRank & AI
AI & ML Teams
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These AI systems can produce high-quality content.

What is Generative AI or GenAI?

100

This type of AI lowers the barrier to entry of computer programming and is changing the role of developers.

What is Generative AI or GenAI?

100

This is the name of the following text: “As HackerRank embraces AI in the products and solutions we build, we're focused on doing so responsibly and in a human-first way.”

What is HackerRank’s Responsible AI pledge, or HackerRank’s Approach to Responsible AI?

100

This is the name of the pitch that Juan walked through during the HackerRank & AI session.

What is the corporate pitch or the company overview pitch?

100

These teams may be responsible for evaluating which ML models work best, tuning models for efficiency, and setting standards for responsible AI.

What are dedicated AI/ML teams?

200

These ML models are capable of understanding and generating natural language.

What are large language models, or LLMs?

200

This is the process of designing and optimizing prompts to guide generative AI models to produce desired outputs.

What is prompt engineering?

200

This is the new standard for compliance that will start being enforced in August 2026.

What is the EU AI Act?

200

This is the JTBD Vivek gave a pitch for during the HackerRank & AI session.

What is optimize your hiring process?

200

This is an important factor for AI/ML teams to consider when choosing a model. It’s a description of the ways in which a user interacts with a system or product.

What is use case?

300

This process refers to adapting a pre-existing LLM to your task.

What is Fine-Tuning?

300

This type of development drastically reduced the time to build GenAI software applications.

What is prompt-based development?

300

This is one of the guiding principles behind our approach to responsible AI where “we will not pursue any applications if we determine that the data or models available are not free from bias.”

What is Bias-Free AI?

300

These are the 2 things savvy companies are doing to get GenAI ready.

What is 1) Hiring and Upskilling for GenAI and 2) Building Dedicated AI/ML Teams?

300

This role is usually not hired as a dedicated role on AI & ML teams.

What is a Prompt Engineer?

400

This is the process of giving LLM’s access to external sources of information.

What is Retrieval Augmented Generation, or RAG?

400

This is the process of building an LLM from scratch.

What is Pre-Training an LLM?

400

This is HackerRank’s guiding principle in which “We’ll never use personally identifiable information (PII) nor will we ever sell or use customer data to train or improve any AI system without explicit permission.

What is “Keep Data Private & Secure?”

400

These are built around industries and can help companies evaluate how candidates solve real-world challenges like Building a feature, Code review, Fixing a bug, or System design.

What are code repos or code repositories?

400

This role on AI/ML teams uses analytical tools and techniques to extract meaningful insights from data. They’re also responsible for analyzing data to make recommendations to guide project or business decisions.

What are data scientists?

500

This ML category uses labeled data to train computers and machines.

What is supervised learning?

500

These developer skills have always been important and will continue being important even as coding assistants get better.

What are coding fundamentals, or foundational coding skills?

500

This country created the “Personal Information Protection Act (2024)” that grants individuals the right to reject automated decisions that significantly affect their rights or obligations.

What is South Korea?

500

In the next gen hiring process Vivek described, this tool will write feedback after the pair programming interview.

What is an AI Assistant?

500

This role on AI/ML teams is responsible for developing advanced AI technologies

What is an ML Researcher?