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Inside Perspective on CoderPad: A Year in Review (and What a Year It Was)

To borrow liberally from the Grateful Dead: what a long strange trip 2020’s been. Strange though it was, it’s good to take a look back on an unsettling year, personally and professionally, and take stock of how we did. As a CEO, I feel remarkably fortunate to report that CoderPad weathered the tumult of the pandemic year very well. In fact, we grew — a lot. We grew because what we offer — an intuitive way to accurately evaluate technical hires — lent itself well to both hybrid and fully remote work environments. We grew because of the incredible (and ongoing) work our team did and continues to do. We grew because the features we added and refined — from a new take-home projects product to a Focus Time feature that helps candidates showcase their real skills without pressure — helped hiring teams conduct more unbiased interviews in a market that needs it more than ever.

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What Ties Our Products Together? A Desire to Make Technical Interviewing Better and More Fair. For Everyone.

CoderPad is a small start-up but we’ve set out to do something mighty: transform technical interviewing so every candidate can truly showcase their skills and every company can make the best possible hires. When we say “every candidate,” we mean it. Every single one. It’s not about surfacing just the Stanford engineering grads or the MIT data scientists, those who are trained to nail interviews. It’s about ensuring that companies can see and embrace amazing talent that comes from all walks of life and all educational backgrounds: from private colleges to coding bootcamps, from state schools to on-the job training. Because this talent helps companies better create an inclusive and representative workforce that as research has exhaustively demonstrated, ultimately builds and delivers more value to customers and the bottom line.

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We’re Building Features to Reduce Bias in Technical Interviews. Say Hello to Focus Time.

Product inspiration can come from anywhere. Earlier this summer, inspiration struck us from an unlikely source: an article on what was wrong with technical interviewing that blew up in Hacker News. The article was on this amazing research out of NC State by researchers Chris Parnin and Mahnaz Behroozi (check out our subsequent Q&A with them here! ). Our reading of the article and subsequent conversations directly influenced Focus Time, a feature we’re incredibly proud to roll out (in fact, it was Chris’s idea!).

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It’s time to evaluate candidates for their work – not for resume logos

I’ve been on both sides of the technical recruiting process more times than I can count. Here’s the truth: the good candidates want to show you what they can do and the good hiring managers want to see it. I’m really excited to share the new feature we’ve built that will help both candidates and companies get their wish. public take-home projects goes live today. With a simple link on a company’s Careers page, companies can make it easy for candidates to click, do a take-home project and “show” their coding skills. Suddenly the traditional resume and recruiter screen, with its ‘all tell/no show’ vibe, feels a lot less relevant. Candidates win by showing their best skills and recruiters save time while also casting a wider net. As a hiring manager, I get to quickly see who my best applicants are, sometimes even those I would have skipped based on resume alone.

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Inspiration from the Inside – Introducing Take-Home Projects

When our senior developer, Ayumi Yu, was starting out, she was having difficulty getting the developer job she wanted. She had majored in cell biology — following her parents’ dream of seeing her become a doctor — and had no formal computer science training. With her home-grown training to go by, potential employers didn’t have the vision to see how she could be successful with a degree that wasn’t software engineering or computer science.

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