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.
1. Customer Support That Feels Like a Partner, Not a Ticketing System
Time and again, CoderPad customers cite responsive, proactive support as a standout feature — something that often feels lacking on other platforms.
Whether it’s onboarding, customizing a test, or troubleshooting during a live interview, our team is there. No black-box email threads. No waiting days for an answer. Just real humans who know your use case and act like an extension of your team.
“I was amazed how quickly the CoderPad team jumped in to help us tweak our assessments. With [another vendor], it would’ve taken a week. With CoderPad, it was fixed in an hour.”
— Head of Talent, Series B SaaS Company
2. An IDE Developers Actually Like Using
Ask any engineer what they think of traditional technical interview platforms, and you’ll hear it: “clunky,” “slow,” “not how I code.”
CoderPad flips that script with a real, browser-based IDE that supports 40+ languages, autocomplete, live collaboration, and even frameworks like React and Flask. For candidates, it feels familiar. For interviewers, it enables better signal.
The result? Less stress, more signal, and a more authentic view of how someone works in the real world.
“With CoderPad, we’re evaluating real-world problem solving — not how well someone can debug a toy coding environment.”
— Engineering Manager, FinTech Company
3. Quality Screening Content That Reflects Real Work
A major pain point with other platforms is generic or unrealistic screening questions that fail to reflect the actual role. CoderPad’s screening questions are crafted by senior engineers and curated for role relevance, clarity, and difficulty balance.
Plus, with custom assessments and realistic, hands-on coding challenges (not just multiple choice), hiring teams get a deeper signal early in the funnel — which means less time wasted in technical screens and more qualified candidates moving forward.
4. No Gimmicks. Just Better Hires, Faster.
While some platforms focus on gamification or flashy features, CoderPad focuses on speed, signal, and candidate experience. We’ve helped thousands of companies — from startups to global enterprises — streamline their technical hiring processes without sacrificing depth or fairness.
5. Real-World Skills Over Puzzles
Most platforms rely on algorithmic challenges that can be gamed with AI, providing a shallow measure of technical ability.
CoderPad’s project-based assessments are different. They test real-world engineering skills like code review, debugging, and system thinking — the kinds of tasks developers actually tackle in their daily work. This ensures that you’re hiring builders, not just test-takers, and significantly reduces false positives.
6. AI-Ready Assessments for Today’s Teams
As AI transforms the developer landscape, traditional assessments are becoming obsolete. CoderPad’s project-based approach is designed to evaluate how candidates work with AI tools, make engineering decisions, and handle complex, multi-file codebases. It focuses on the critical thinking and problem-solving skills that matter in real development, including:
- AI Collaboration: Evaluating how candidates work alongside AI tools, from code generation to prompt crafting and context handling.
- Decision-Making Under Ambiguity: Understanding how candidates choose the right tools, architectures, and trade-offs in open-ended scenarios.
- Error Detection and Debugging: Testing the ability to diagnose and resolve issues in complex, multi-file projects where context is critical.
- Systems Thinking: Assessing how candidates manage interconnected components and handle edge cases, just like they would in a production environment.
This approach ensures that candidates can navigate the modern AI-driven workplace, aligning their skills with real-world challenges.
7. Unified Candidate Experience, Start to Finish
With CoderPad, candidates move seamlessly from project-based assessments to live interviews without the friction of switching platforms. This unified approach eliminates context loss, improves signal consistency, and provides a more accurate view of each candidate’s real-world skills.
This integrated process means TA teams have better insights into a candidate’s potential from the first touchpoint through final interviews, reducing time-to-hire and improving overall candidate quality.
It also reduces the risk of talent slipping through the cracks due to inconsistent evaluation criteria, ensuring that the best candidates make it to the final stages of your hiring funnel.
8. Beyond Code – Assess Soft Skills and Collaboration
CoderPad doesn’t just measure technical skills. It also reveals critical soft skills like communication, collaboration, and problem-solving through built-in video, real-time code collaboration, and project discussions. This approach captures the full range of what makes a developer effective on the job, including how they explain their decisions, respond to feedback, and work within a team context.
For TA leaders, this means a more complete picture of each candidate’s fit and potential, reducing the risk of costly bad hires and improving long-term retention.
9. Empower Talent Acquisition Teams to Build High-Quality Pipelines
CoderPad reduces the time-to-hire by eliminating the need for multiple, disconnected tools and manual code reviews. With automated scoring, real-time collaboration, and integrated project-based assessments, you can surface top talent faster.
This not only shortens your hiring cycles but also improves candidate experience by reducing delays and unnecessary steps, allowing TA teams to focus on building high-quality pipelines and reducing the risk of bad hires.
By aligning assessment methods with real-world tasks, you can make more confident, data-driven hiring decisions that reduce turnover and improve long-term retention.
Ready to See Why Teams Are Making the Switch?
If you’re tired of poor candidate experiences, clunky tools, and lackluster support, it’s time to see what CoderPad can do differently. Book a demo to learn learn more about how to improve your technical hiring.