WTF is up with HackerRank evaluation test?

Question

I gave an Online Assessment test for a company. There were 3 questions. 2 DS & Algo, 1 a problem to fetch data from a URL and processing. I got flagged for plagiarism.

The questions were not even normal leetcode questions, how can it flag as plagiarism. They should at least be open about what they consider as plagiarism, code letter matching, copy-paste in the editor, going out of the tab.

Either they should improve how they measure plagriarism or it is total crap.

Answer 1

Most of the time this happens for one of the two reasons(other than plagiarism itself)

1. People use online code editors, forget to make it private

2. People use ready made snippets they have created over the years, which they have used already in other competitions.