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Leverage Visuals in Back-End Engineering Hiring

The best interviews are subjective and allow a candidate to express their thought process. Whether that’s expressed through their code, comments, or via a conversation in code review, it can give a good insight into how they’ll function within your production codebase. Unfortunately, most instructions provided within an interview – particularly those of back-end engineering – tend to be step-by-step instructions with little room for creative interpretation.

Product Updates

FigJam + CoderPad: A More Visual Way To Interview

We’ve talked about how beneficial UI mockups can be for Front-End interviews and how visuals can accelerate Back-End interviews in the past. Luckily, you don’t have to give up your favorite tools to utilize these concepts to their fullest potential. Let’s explore how you can integrate your CoderPad interviews within Figma for each candidate. Start by setting up your FigJam file to use in your interview. You’ll want to include any relevant diagrams and visuals required for your candidates’ technical assessment.

Announcements

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.

Development

GitHub Copilot Breaks Bad Interviews

GitHub Copilot was recently announced! In the past few years, we’ve seen artificial intelligence (AI) revolutionize aspects of technology such as image recognition, recommendation algorithms, and more. With Copilot, GitHub is hoping to add “code generation” to that list of items. In this article, we’ll explain what GitHub Copilot is, why some people are concerned with allowing its usage in technical interviews, and how to build your interviews to be better in general and therefore more resilient to auto-generated code.

Development

Web Components 101: Vanilla JavaScript

Many modern web apps today are built using components. While frameworks like React exist to add an implementation, web components seek to make those practices standardized and part of your browser. In this article, we’ll touch on what web components are, how we can build them without a framework, and some limitations to keep in mind during development. Later, in a follow-up article, we’ll show how a lightweight framework (such as Lit) can provide quality-of-life improvements for those looking to build larger scale applications.

Announcements

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.

Development

Introduction to Web Accessibility (A11Y)

If you’ve come across this article but haven’t heard about web accessibility (often shortened to “A11Y”) before, that’s okay. We’re all learning at different speeds and come across new things all the time. That said, accessibility is a critical component of any frontend engineer’s responsibilities. We implore you to explore what that means, not just in this blog post but beyond with your teams and communities. First, let’s define what “accessibility” is. Accessibility in engineering is “the process of creating products that are usable by people with the widest possible range of abilities.”

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