Case Study
How Cresta Consolidated All Technical Hiring on CoderPad to Scale Eng Hiring
Cresta is an AI platform for contact centers that combines the best of AI and humans, transforming conversations and workflows with co-pilots and AI Agents that save money, improve conversion rates, and scale revenue growth for customers. With 25+ engineering roles open across the world at any given time, Cresta is hiring and growing quickly. The AI company is doing cutting-edge work making it an attractive one to work for. And with that, comes a massive number of inbound applications.
The Challenge: Cresta needed a way to scale its global engineering hiring operation.
Prior to using CoderPad Screen, CoderPad’s asynchronous technical assessment product, the Cresta talent acquisition team had to carefully review each and every resume to determine who should be passed along to the engineering team for an interview. Without much context on the candidate’s actual abilities, TA leaders had to make the fast decision of moving a candidate forward or not.
TA and engineering leaders at Cresta realized this process needed to ramp up aggressively to meet their hiring needs, and decided to introduce a step at the front of the process for all engineering roles to sort through the stack of candidates and accurately determine who interviewers should spend time getting to know.
At the time, Cresta was using another technical hiring tool for this first step for a subset of its engineering roles. Cresta was simultaneously leveraging CoderPad for all technical interviewing.
The Evaluation: Cresta launched an evaluation process of the various asynchronous technical assessment vendors on the market.
Cresta chose CoderPad as its vendor of choice for asynchronous technical assessments, therefore consolidating all technical hiring onto the CoderPad platform. CoderPad Screen won out over the other leading solutions on the market for a number of reasons. First, it was CoderPad’s superior product experience and friendly UI.
With CoderPad, the UX design is better, the UI is more responsive. It is easy and intuitive to use.
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Another important differentiating factor was CoderPad’s transparent, usage based pricing model.
CoderPad’s pricing structure allowed us to have an unlimited number of interviewers. The other products we reviewed charged based on interviewer seats. Everyone on our engineering team contributes to interviews so we would need to buy a larger number of interviewer seats, which would not be fully utilized because we try to distribute the interview load.
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The last notable differentiator in the evaluation process was CoderPad’s deep partnership model.
Very importantly, through the evaluation process, the people we worked with from CoderPad worked as true partners to us.
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The Solution: CoderPad Screen has enabled Cresta to interview and hire at much higher volumes.
With CoderPad, we have increased the velocity of the hiring operation. The throughput of the operation has increased. And that is the impact I care about most.
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Now that the Cresta team is using Screen, decision making has become much simpler and faster. TA leaders and hiring managers can review the candidate’s assessment result in addition to the resume and quickly determine whether they should have the opportunity to interview or not.
Reviewing the Screen outcomes allows us to see if the candidate really can write reasonable code, and make decisions based on that. This absolutely scales up our hiring operation
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It was a big burden for the hiring managers and recruiting team to review thousands of resumes that were piled up in the inbound pipeline. It took a lot of effort and a lot of time. Now, with the tool, their jobs are so much easier.
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CoderPad has also assisted Cresta in scaling its hiring globally. Cresta has open roles across Europe and North America. While spinning up recruiting and hiring across the world comes with a host of challenges, CoderPad is a constant that works regardless of where the candidates and recruiters are.
When we start hiring in a new location, we need to find recruiters who are familiar with the local market, to find interviewers who are available in that time zone, etc. Each stage of the pipeline needs to be scaled up. CoderPad is the part that we don’t need to worry about, because it just works.
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With CoderPad, Cresta has unlocked efficiencies that have empowered their engineering team to grow faster and with the best fit talent. Ready to scale your hiring operation? Contact a member of our sales team today to learn more about how we can help you achieve your growth potential.