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CoderPad’s Vision For Tech Hiring In 2024 – With A Bold New Look

It’s a New Year and with it, CoderPad is refreshing our look to kickstart a bold, impactful year of technical hiring at companies across the globe. These changes reflect our dedication to breaking the status quo in technical hiring and pushing to foster transparency in the process. We are here to empower you with the tools you need to make your developer hiring process a success. Last year, we saw the tech job market shift significantly from the highest of highs to countless rounds of layoffs and endless uncertainty. We witnessed ChatGPT shake the industry to its core and make a massive impact on how we think about and do work. It was a year of big changes for tech and beyond.

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The 2023 CoderPad year in review

What would the end of the year be without a good countdown? Please enjoy the top features the CoderPad team thinks will help you make hiring and interviewing more real, fast and fair in 2024. Happy holidays and cheers to a healthy and prosperous new year! CoderPad Screen Custom multiple-choice question import tool Import hundreds of multiple-choice questions in seconds through a .csv file with the new question import tool . By adding your own custom content, you can create tests that are more specific to business and use cases, and provide a better candidate experience.

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2 Interview Questions to Assess Your Next Intermediate Backend Engineer

Technical interview sessions often risk becoming routine exercises rather than meaningful evaluations. This issue is particularly critical when interviewing intermediate backend software engineers, as mundane or inappropriate questions can lead to a lack of engagement and a failure to accurately assess their more advanced skill set. For intermediate roles, the interview questions need to be carefully calibrated. They should be challenging enough to test their deeper understanding of backend systems and architectures, but not so advanced that they are better suited for senior-level engineers. The focus should be on evaluating their proficiency in key backend technologies, their ability to design more complex systems, and their problem-solving approach in more nuanced scenarios.

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5 Fresh Takes On How To Run A Successful Hackathon

Hackathons, once primarily associated with the tech industry, have become widely embraced across various sectors. These intensive, time-bound events offer an unparalleled opportunity for employees to collaborate, brainstorm, and develop innovative solutions to real-world challenges. And employees like them – when they’re done right. I once participated in a hackathon that touted free food, free energy drinks, a chance to win an iPad, an Amazon Echo Dot consolation prize, and the “fun” of staying up for 24 hours to finish your project. Who wouldn’t participate in that hackathon?!

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3 Tips To Introduce ChatGPT Into Your Technical Interviews

Autocomplete. Debuggers. Package managers. What do they have in common? At one point, these were new technologies that eased the lives of countless software engineers. At some point, hiring managers needed to see if their potential employees could utilize these time-saving innovations. Eventually, recruiters brought the use of these tools into their technical interviews. We’re at that point with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, and Google Bard. This means you should start taking steps to introduce them into your interviews.

Hiring Developers

You Won’t Improve Gender Diversity in Your Technical Hiring Without Doing These Things First

Wanting to improve gender diversity in your technical hiring , but not sure where to start? Or, you’ve been trying to improve gender diversity but have found yourself struggling? You’re in the right place. If you don’t have these 5 things “down”, your gender diversity goals will stall. These are the foundations for more gender diverse tech teams. You’ll need to: 1. Get executive buy-in A foundational step towards achieving gender diversity is securing support from your executive team.

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10 Tips For Scheduling Your Interviews Efficiently

Talent Acquisition, as a whole, is a fascinating, vibrant and dynamic process. Interview scheduling, specifically? Pretty dull. It’s just something that needs to be done, and done efficiently. Looking for ways to make interview scheduling better, easier, and less of a headache? Read on. 1. Leverage technology Technology has transformed the recruitment industry, swapping out slow, paper-based processes with digital alternatives.

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CoderPad November Releases

It’s now even quicker to find the language or framework you need in Interview and you can easily bulk upload custom questions to Screen, favorite questions to find easily, or enjoy the new gamified questions we’ve added to the bank. CoderPad Interview Updates Refreshed language menu The number of available languages and frameworks keeps growing so we’ve redesigned the language menu so you can find what you’re looking for more quickly. Now you can browse the list, type the language you’re looking for in the search bar, or navigate by category.

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4 Interview Questions To See If Candidate & Company Values Align

Gauging a software developer’s career aspirations is crucial to understanding their long-term fit and potential growth within a company. It takes many types of contributors to make your tech team successful, and knowing a candidate’s career aspirations can help you determine if their long-term goals match what your team needs and what you can offer. Some candidates will excel as individual contributors, while others make good people managers, superb tech leads, notable architects, or outstanding mentors. What you want or need for your team will constantly change as people move in and out of it.

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