CoderPad Pros and Cons

- The fact the editor supports modes for every type of user (vim mode / normal "vscode" style mode)

- The integrated video/audio call option

- The ability to quickly load up problems/questions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- The fact the typical "save" keyboard shortcut (ctrl+s / cmd+s) is hooked up to "run"

- Sometimes it glitches and deletes the candidate's code (temporarily)

- The video calls are sometimes a little unstable Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Coderpad has been a consistent platform for our team to use over the last several years, both when we were in office and as we moved to virtual assessments, which has been invaluable in this time of constant upheaval. It is easy for interviewers, candidates, and recruiting to onboard to, administration and use is easy, and Coderpad integrates seamlessly with our other recruiting tools and processes.

The team at Coderpad is constantly working on improvements and new features; pretty much every improvement they have come out with has been able to address our interviewing challenges. Additionally, they listen to our requests and feature feedback. I appreciate how they assess our difficulties in detail and are committed to supporting us and thinking of solutions. They are attentive to us as customers and are one of the best partners I have had the pleasure of working with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Coderpad is great all around; I don't have a meaningful dislike. If I had to scrounge up any point of improvement, the video and sound quality within Coderpad calls are not as strong as video conferencing platforms; however, this is not an issue for us as we did not bring on the tool for that purpose. Coderpad works perfectly well with our current structure and methods of virtual interviewing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I lie that CoderPad integrates easily with many different scheduling programs. It also has an easy to understand interface that makes using the tool a breeze most days. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think CoderPad is overall a wonderful tool and I haven't seen many drawbacks but don't know of how competitors work so can't say it is flawless but works well within my scope. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's really simple to sue. They didn't overload the product with so many bells and whistles that it would be impossible to figure out or you'd need a training session. It takes about 10 - 15 minutes to figure out what's going on with absolutely no experience. Yet, there's still a lot of flexibility. Tons of environments to choose them and they all have the basic ecosystem installed. For everything that you'd think you'd need as part of the coding interview experience, it's there in a sensible way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

None that I can think of. For what it does, it does exceptionally well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's easy to set up templates for whiteboard questions and conduct interactive interviews. We just send the candidate the link and begin coding. I have not used any other similar tools, but haven't felt any reason to. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes we paste prompts in the editor and then the candidate decides to switch languages which erases what we pasted. We have created templates in multiple languages but it would be nice if the editor could more seamlessly transition between languages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best part of CoderPad is the ability to view what the candidate is working on in real-time. The live-share capabilities are excellent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't particularly appreciate that there isn't an easy way for candidates to write tests for their code. Most of the time, they are left having to write assertions or print statements instead of adequately testing with Jest or Pytest Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Both the IDE and the console are pretty helpful. The language selection is decent. Easy to send links. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hard to set up questions. Don't like that I can't edit or play around with the finished Coderpads. Often I want to inspect some of the code a candidate has written. React IDE is very difficult to use, to a point we just send a GitHub and ask candidate's to set up pre-interview and screenshare. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is very easy to create pads for interviews and then scroll back to recorded pads when they are finished. I love the rewind & forward features on the pad. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't like its interface to draw diagrams.

I don't like that when interview candidates open a coder pad link, and enter their name, it doesn't take them to the instructions tab. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One of the big draws for CoderPad (when compared to other tools) was the real SQL databases you can connect to questions. This was critical in testing candidates full stack abilities. It also allowed us to really give them questions that represented an actual system and just not have them practice algorithms in front of us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are some library limitations on what candidates can use in the system which some times hampered people using what they know really well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Being able to set up shared developer environments with question templates.

The usability of the editor experience.

Wide variety of coding languages to pick from. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Reliability is still being improved. Sometimes there are bugs in the environment that surface at inoportune times. I would suggest investing more in this on the product side. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.