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CoderPad

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11 Reviews and Ratings

What is CoderPad?

CoderPad is a technical interview platform from the company of the same name in San Francisco, ideally used by development teams to enable a quick, accurate read on a candidate's skills through the hiring process. According to the vendor, CoderPad works like an IDE to help candidates share their skills and ensure the interviewer understands how the candidate works. The platform supports collaborative coding sessions and take-home assignments.

A Near Perfect Assessment Platform

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Coderpad is the technical assessment platform that we use to hire new employees. The CoderPad assessments are given as part of the interview process. We use CodeSignal to assess the aptitude in programming skills from the CoderPad assessment score. As the score is generated on aspects such as the candidate's problem-solving ability and speed, the CoderPad assessment serves as a good measure to judge a candidate before that person is called for the next round of interviews.

Pros

  • Option of proctored/unproctored assessment
  • Uniform structure of assessment
  • Variety of problem sets to choose from

Cons

  • Code editor should be more responsive for auto suggestions
  • Practice environment should be located in such a way that it should be found easily
  • A transparent and publicly available pricing

Most Important Features

  • Question Pool
  • Data Structure and Algorithm based assessment
  • Report Generation

Return on Investment

  • 10 working hours saved weekly which used to be spent on interviews
  • Approximately 3 employees worth of manpower is saved
  • The benefit of allowing assessment in multiple languages allowed the interviewee to concentrate on evaluation on the basis of underlying concepts

Alternatives Considered

CodeSignal

Other Software Used

HackerRank, Codility, CodeSignal

An Interactive Environment For Coding Interviews, Which More or Less Does The Job.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As an end user. CoderPad is utilized by interviewers to host technical coding interviews. Generally it works quite well and gives users an environment to code in various languages.

Pros

  • Large range of supported languages
  • Code runs quickly
  • Allows for intractability between interviewer and interviewee

Cons

  • Occasionally IDE parsing of code will mark correct code incorrect and will update late
  • Listing functions callable by a given object is sometimes slow
  • Could provide a small non-login required demo site for interviewees so they will be more used to the development environment before interviews

Most Important Features

  • Live code editing between multiple people
  • Built in drawing tool to give coders a way to plan out code/ideas
  • Ability to provide take-home projects

Return on Investment

  • Simplifies interview process and helps field candidates better by seeing how they function in a coding environment

Alternatives Considered

HackerRank and CodeSignal

Other Software Used

HackerRank, CodeSignal

Usability

CoderPad changed hiring for us

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used CoderPad for hiring of some of the coders for our team. Initially hiring was a hectic process but with the help of CoderPad it became easy because of the automation in their hiring technology. Before using CoderPad we had to take manual interviews and make multiple processes to get people on board. A lot of time was put in finding the right candidate. It was way better now with CoderPad.

Pros

  • It is very simple to use. Any one can use it from our side.
  • We love how the transparency in hiring of coders.
  • Even the big Fortune companies use it for hiring.

Cons

  • They can defiantly work on the pricing part.
  • The environment for practice can be found easily.
  • It doesn't solve the whole hiring process.

Most Important Features

  • Easy to use
  • Scope of new joinees from anywhere in the world
  • Talents meets right place

Return on Investment

  • Time saved is time earned
  • Anyone can manage it from our team