CoderPad Alternatives And Competitors

 

CoderPad used to be the clear winner and household name in the space, but has been slow to innovate since they were acquired by a PE firm and need to now focus on enterprise deals. Nevertheless, they have a tried and true interview experience that many engineering managers and candidates are familiar with.

Pros

  • Ease-of-use: CoderPad makes it super easy to start an interview (or a “pad” as they call it) with built-in video/audio. They even have a Google Chrome extension for scheduling and starting interviews. You can toggle to an embedded drawing mode and access a playback mode.
  • Affordability: You can interview two candidates for free per month.

Cons

  • For how long CoderPad has been around, their platform is shockingly limited in terms of languages and features. They don’t offer Jupyter Notebooks, don’t offer support for back-end frameworks like Django or Ruby on Rails, and have a very primitive capability for multi-file, full-stack applications. You’re also very limited in overall candidate management and scorecard capabilities.
  • Virtually every company will exhaust the free plan immediately, and then CoderPad actually becomes one of the most expensive platforms on a per-candidate basis. You’ll have to pay even more if you want their automated assessment features.

 

1. Coderbyte

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2. Qualified.io

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3. HackerRank

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4. CodeSignal

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5. Byteboard

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6. Karat

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7. Codility

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8. TestDome

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9. TestGorilla

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