--- title: "The Great Tech Interview Playbook | CoderPad" description: "Learn more about The Great Tech Interview Playbook from CoderPad." canonical: "https://coderpad.io/events/the-great-tech-interview-playbook/" last_modified: "2025-12-12 12:27:42" --- On-Demand Webinar [Play Video: The Great Tech Interview Playbook](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuX43Ij_HRY) # The Great Tech Interview Playbook Thursday, December 11 th 2025 11:00am 12:00pm PST Tech interviews are evolving fast — and for good reason. The best teams know that outdated whiteboarding or vague algorithm questions often fail to reflect the way engineers actually work. Today, great interviews are collaborative, contextual, and designed to reveal not just what candidates know, but how they solve problems in the real world. This session explores how high-performing engineering and hiring teams are rethinking their technical interviews to better assess code quality, communication, and creativity. Learn how to design interviews that feel less like a trap and more like a conversation — and how to create a hiring experience that reflects the work and culture your team is proud of. Whether you’re hiring for backend, frontend, data, or full-stack roles, you’ll walk away with practical insights to modernize your process and build better candidate signal from the start. Attendees Will Learn: - What real-world technical interview design looks like today - How to move beyond theoretical questions to applied problem-solving - Signals that matter most when assessing communication and collaboration - Ways to reduce candidate stress without lowering the hiring bar - Tips to align interviews with engineering values and actual work ## Speakers ![Ron Fish](https://coderpad.io/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Ron-Fish.webp) Ron Fish Talent Advisory Consultant Abacus Insights ![Nathan Sutter](https://coderpad.io/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Nathan-Sutter.webp) Nathan Sutter VP of Engineering CoderPad ![Ambra Benjamin](https://coderpad.io/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Ambra-Benjamin.webp) Ambra Benjamin VP, Global Technical Recruiting Datadog ![Tim Kamanā](https://coderpad.io/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Tim-Kamana.webp) Tim Kamanā Lead Technical Recruiter Cedar ![Leneric Muldrow](https://coderpad.io/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Leneric-Muldrow.webp) Leneric Muldrow Talent Acquisition Bumble Inc. [/events/the-great-tech-interview-playbook/](https://coderpad.io/events/the-great-tech-interview-playbook/) Virtual ## Trending Articles Previous slide Next slide [Hiring Developers ## How to Hire for AI Fluency Now That It’s a Critical Skill Based on the CoderPad webinar featuring Bayo Ojuri (CoderPad), Bonnie Dilber (Zapier), and Melany Austin (GoDaddy). “AI fluency” has quietly become a line item in nearly every technical job description. The problem: most teams added the requirement long before they had a reliable way to assess it. You can ask a candidate whether they use […] Read the post](https://coderpad.io/blog/hiring-developers/how-to-hire-for-ai-fluency-now-that-its-a-critical-skill/) [Hiring Developers ## Hot Takes on Hiring: “AI Fluency” Is a Myth Our CEO, Amanda Richardson, and our Head of Product, Frank Hauben, can’t agree on anything else. We put Amanda and Frank on camera, handed them five spicy hot takes about AI in hiring, and told them not to sit on the fence. 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