--- title: "A Year in Review (and What a Year It Was) - CoderPad" description: "We helped more people get hired in one of the roughest years on record." canonical: "https://coderpad.io/blog/product-updates/coderpad-a-year-in-review/" last_modified: "2022-01-14 10:26:22" --- [Back to blog](https://coderpad.io/blog/) # Inside Perspective on CoderPad: A Year in Review (and What a Year It Was) February 1, 2021 2 Minute Read By Amanda Richardson [Product Updates](https://coderpad.io/blog/product-updates/) 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](https://coderpad.io/resources/docs/interview/quick-start-guides/interviewers/take-home-projects/) product to a [Focus Time feature](https://coderpad.io/features/focus-time/) 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. I am really proud of the incredible growth stats that resulted from this work: - A 90 percent increase in corporations trying CoderPad - 100 percent increase in new enterprise customer revenue - 60 percent increase in use/pads created by nearly 2000 customers In short, we got more people to try us; when customers tried us, they liked us and purchased; they used the product regularly; and they stuck around to do more hiring. All of that is great — but what the numbers and the conclusions really add up to is what keeps us going. We helped more people get hired in one of the roughest years on record. And we supported remote hiring as it almost instantly became the de facto standard for employers. We know that as one company, we are a supporting player in the hiring ecosystem. But we feel good that — at a time of substantial un- and under-employment — our technology helped put people in jobs that use their talents and pay them well. We also grew our commitment to anti-racism work. We became an early customer of [YearOne](https://www.joinyearone.io/), a Black-owned start-up and [TechStars KC](https://www.startlandnews.com/2020/06/techstars-kc/) accelerator member that provides access to a rich source of vetted, diverse software developers from coding academies all across the U.S. In the fourth quarter, we completed the hiring goals we’d established in Q3 and successfully onboarded a brand-new and amazing technical hire! As we turn our focus to the coming months, we’re setting goals on anti-racism work now as a team and will continue to share more as part of our updates. In 2021, we’re expecting to continue our trajectory by keeping it simple: helping our customers use technology to find, evaluate and hire great people. And we’ll use that work to continue to drive good back into the tech ecosystem. ## Subscribe for more CoderPad insights ## Trending Articles Previous slide Next slide [Product Updates ## Your Question Bank Is Leaking. Here’s the Fix. Every hiring team eventually hits the same wall: TA own raising the bar, don’t have the technical knowledge required to write questions that test for it. So teams are improvising, a shared question bank, a busy engineer’s spare 20 minutes, and last year’s assessment recycled one more time. It feels fine butt isn’t. Recycled and […] Read the post](https://coderpad.io/blog/product-updates/your-question-bank-is-leaking-heres-the-fix/) [Product Updates ## 2026 Product Recap: Technical Hiring Has Changed. We Built for What Comes Next. AI has fundamentally changed how engineers work. It’s not a tool candidates might use anymore. It’s embedded in how code gets written, reviewed, and shipped every day. In many teams, the majority of code is already AI-assisted—and growing. Which leads to a clear conclusion for hiring teams: Trying to remove AI from the interview process […] Read the post](https://coderpad.io/blog/product-updates/2026-product-recap/) [Product Updates ## Top 14 CoderPad Features of 2024 – Features That Were Too Good to Miss 2024 has been an exciting year for technical hiring, and we’ve been honored to be part of your journey. Whether you’re a recruiter working hard to attract the right talent, an interviewer crafting thoughtful assessments, or a candidate showing your best work in sometimes stressful situations, every step of the process matters. This year, our […] Read the post](https://coderpad.io/blog/product-updates/top-14-coderpad-features-2024/) [Product Updates ## CoderPad June releases You can now add a custom time frame for candidates to complete tests, give candidates the option to take a test in Chinese, export your pad and test usage stats... 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