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What We Learned at TalentSphere (And What It Means for Tech Hiring in 2026)

TalentSphere always feels like a group chat comes to life. Founders, recruiters, consultants, and talent leaders in one place, swapping notes on what is working, what is breaking, and what AI is doing to all of it. This year, we showed up with one big question: what is actually keeping TA leaders up at night? Here’s what we heard, again and again. 1. “We are wasting too much time.” Sab, our Account Executive, said this came up in nearly every conversation.

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The engineers behind the AI 50 get hired with CoderPad

The Forbes AI 50 recognizes the world’s most forward-thinking AI companies. These are the teams leading the AI revolution. We’re proud to support over two-thirds of them. From building foundation models to shipping AI-native apps, these companies are at the cutting edge. They need technical talent that can move fast – skilled coders and problem solvers who think in systems, collaborate well, and leverage AI-driven workflows.

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CoderPad Recognized as a G2 Leader for Winter 2026

We’re excited to share that CoderPad has been named a G2 Leader in the Winter 2026 reports for Technical Skills Screening—earning the Leader badges for Technical Skills Screening, the Mid-Market Grid® for Technical Skills Screening Software, and Momentum Leaders. These recognitions are especially meaningful because they’re driven entirely by real customer reviews . Every score, ranking, and badge reflects the experiences and feedback of the teams who use CoderPad every day to run fair, realistic, and effective technical interviews.

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4 signs your technical interview format needs a refresh (and a free audit to fix it)

Engineering leaders and talent teams know that a bad interview doesn’t just waste time, it can filter out strong candidates and damage your reputation. But what makes an interview format outdated? To help you self-assess and course-correct, we’ve created a free, 1-page audit that covers the four key pillars of a modern technical interview: Real-world relevance Are you testing how candidates solve realistic, practical, role-specific problems, not just memorized trivia or whiteboard puzzles?

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The Tech Hiring Paradox: Layoffs Are Real – But So Is Growth

The headlines on tech layoffs feel brutal. Amazon, Accenture, Intel, Microsoft, Meta, Mozilla, and more have all announced workforce reductions, and decisions like these may not be over. And yet – despite how awful this is for everyone impacted – the narrative that ‘tech hiring is dead’ or ‘AI is already coming for your jobs’ is not the whole story. In fact, hiring may be slower but it’s not nothing. It’s a much more nuanced picture.

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AI in the interview isn’t cheating—it’s the job. Just ask Meta.

AI coding assistants are now a standard part of many developers’ workflows. So why ban them in interviews? That’s the question Meta’s hiring team is answering with a pilot program for AI-enabled coding interviews . With CoderPad’s platform, Meta is equipping candidates with the same AI tools they’d use on the job—encouraging brainstorming, iteration, and practical problem-solving instead of memorization. Meta’s approach is a strong example of skills-first, realistic assessment in action:

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Introducing CoderPad Projects: The future of technical hiring

Technical work has fundamentally changed. Engineers and analysts collaborate with AI tools, navigate complex multi-file projects, and spend more time reviewing and debugging code than writing algorithms from scratch. Your technical hiring process needs to evolve with these realities. CoderPad Projects are a new way to assess job-ready skills: candidates tackle realistic challenges in VS Code environments that mirror your tech stack, while your hiring team gets reliable signals about the skills that matter: understanding, building, debugging, and shipping code in production-style workflows. The result: faster, fairer evaluation with a significantly better candidate experience.

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AI & the Future of Technical Hiring: Key Takeaways From From Day One’s NYC Panel

When HR leaders gathered at From Day One’s Manhattan conference last month, one theme rang loud and clear: artificial intelligence is no longer a looming trend—it’s already reshaping how we work. From streamlining back‑office workflows to reinventing talent assessment, AI’s impact was on full display during the panel “How HR Leaders Can Leverage AI to Make Their Work More Effective and Fulfilling.” Among the experts was Catherine Hill , CoderPad’s VP of Marketing , who shared how AI inside CoderPad is helping companies surface the best engineering talent faster and more fairly.

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Why Companies Are Switching to CoderPad: A Better Experience for Candidates and Hiring Teams

In today’s tech hiring market, both engineering teams and talent acquisition leaders can’t afford friction in their candidate experience or inefficiencies in their evaluation process. That’s why a growing number of companies are making the switch from platforms like Codility, HackerRank, and CodeSignal to CoderPad. The reasons are clear: exceptional customer support, a developer-friendly IDE, and high-quality screening content that actually reflects on-the-job performance.

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