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The 2022 CoderPad Year in Review

As 2022 comes to a close, we’re reflecting on the feature updates and major releases that have helped our users improve their interview process. Here at CoderPad, we were busy! 2022 saw the release of major features (have you seen our multi-file environments yet?) and product updates. Here are the top 10 features we were most excited about this year: 1. Multi-file environments In CoderPad’s new multi-file environments, users now have the ability to spin up full applications and get more creative with interview questions.

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CoderPad Reloaded

We’re thrilled to launch the latest version of our CoderPad Live interviews! Frameworks launches this week with five of the most popular front-end frameworks: This is an important step in the evolution of technical interviews. We see interviewing as an authentic evaluation of the skills someone actually needs to thrive in the job. Frameworks make it even easier to achieve this. We believe technical interviews should be both collaborative and realistic. A good interview experience empowers candidates to show off their day-to-day skills and also to discover what it’s like to work at your company.

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Scheduling Interviews Just Got A Whole Lot Easier With CoderPad’s Google Chrome Extension

Scheduling interviews through CoderPad just got loads easier. With our Google Chrome Calendar extension, you can now create and link to pads directly in Google Calendar or directly in your browser toolbar. We added this feature to help make the CoderPad scheduling process much smoother: The extension is easy to install, you can download it for free from the Chrome Web Store here . You can find the documentation on how to set up and use the extension here .

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Dev Diaries: How We Make Pair Programming Interviews Easy with Duplicate Pads

One interview early in my career left such a mark on me that it changed the way I approach technical interviews ever since. The first step: I was given a take-home assignment to write a program that would round dollar amounts to the nearest five cents. The best part about this assignment? I got to pick which language to use out of three options. Then, I submitted the assignment, somebody reviewed it, and I got called in for a live interview. They gave me the heads up to come in familiar with the code I had submitted.

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CoderPad Now Supports Solidity!

Smart contract hiring managers rejoice! You now can run live interviews and offer take-home tests in Solidity. Solidity is a popular object-oriented language used for creating smart contracts that run on Ethereum. With the growing demand for Web3 and blockchain technology, we’re super excited about adding Solidity to the CoderPad environment. You can try it out in the CoderPad environment by selecting Solidity from the language dropdown:

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Introducing CoderPad Monaco, A Better Code Editor Experience

Developers are picky about their code editors. Everyone has a certain set of expectations around what they want their IDE to do. At CoderPad, we want to make sure that the interview experience is as smooth as possible, no matter which editor you use. Candidates should be able to perform at their best without distraction from an unfamiliar editor, just as they would when on the job. Interviewers likewise want to provide an excellent developer candidate experience.

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Announcing CoderPad’s Latest ATS Integration with SmartRecruiters

CoderPad’s 2022 tech hiring survey showed that 35% of recruiters plan to hire more than 50 engineers this year alone. And when you’re in the middle of a hiring push and trying to assess a pool of promising software engineers, every moment counts. No one has time to toggle between different tools to find technical interview records, log in and out of different accounts, and ultimately waste precious mental energy with a messy, inefficient hiring funnel.

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Faster, Better, and More Fair: How CoderPad and CodinGame Will Change Technical Hiring Together

Not that long ago, technical hiring was mostly the purview of technical companies: the Googles, Facebooks and Microsofts of the world. That’s no longer true. Today every company is a technical company because the skills that transform businesses, and even entire industries and sectors, are technical ones. In fact, the top five most in-demand technical skills for 2022 are (in order): artificial intelligence, IoT technology, machine learning, data science, and mobile app development.

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CoderPad Expands Technical Interview Capabilities with Acquisition of AdaptiLab Hiring Product

San Francisco, Calif., June 28, 2021 — CoderPad , the leading technical candidate assessment platform, announced today it has acquired AdaptiLab ’s machine learning and data science interviewing tools to further expand its best-in-class technical interviewing product suite. Combined with CoderPad’s intuitive paired programming environment, AdaptiLab’s tools — including a large library of interview questions for various data science and machine learning roles — empower hiring managers to better assess candidates’ technical merits as they build out highly capable data-oriented teams.

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