Introducing CoderPad Projects: The future of technical hiring
Technical work has fundamentally changed. Engineers and analysts collaborate with AI tools, navigate complex multi-file projects, and spend more time reviewing and debugging code than writing algorithms from scratch. Your technical hiring process needs to evolve with these realities.
CoderPad Projects are a new way to assess job-ready skills: candidates tackle realistic challenges in VS Code environments that mirror your tech stack, while your hiring team gets reliable signals about the skills that matter: understanding, building, debugging, and shipping code in production-style workflows. The result: faster, fairer evaluation with a significantly better candidate experience.
Why Projects, and why now?
- Measure what matters. Great teams hire for impact, not trivia. Projects test candidates on tasks they’ll actually do in their first weeks on the job: building features, debugging code, and working within your frameworks.
- Accelerate decisions, keep them fair. AI-assisted authoring and scoring reduce review time while improving consistency. You’ll make confident hiring decisions based on how candidates solve real problems, not artificial puzzles.
- Improve the candidate experience. A familiar VS Code environment and realistic, role-relevant challenges increase completion rates and let candidates showcase their true capabilities – no more studying algorithms they will never use.
What are CoderPad Projects?
Projects are a new type of multi-file assessments designed for CoderPad Screen. These async projects complement the same multi-file realistic environments in CoderPad Interview to deliver a consistent candidate experience. Candidates work in a complete development environment with file trees, dependencies, and running applications and complete tasks that mirror day-to-day work.
Key capabilities:
VS Code-powered IDE
Equip candidates with a full development environment with file tree, quick navigation, and ergonomic editing.
Realistic production environments
Use frameworks and dependencies that reflect your tech. Run apps, execute tests, debug issues the way your team actually works.
Stack-aligned templates
Start with our templates or create your own:
- Frontend: React, Angular, Vue
- Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL
- Languages: Node.js, Python, Java, Go, .NET
AI-enabled authoring and review
Empower candidates to use AI tools, and equip reviewers with AI summaries and checks.
Consistent and comparable scoring
Combine automated checks reviews with manual review criteria to advance the best candidates.
Complete transparency
Review a timeline of keystrokes, code and test runs, and critical moments to see how work unfolded.
See Projects in action
What’s available now:
- VS Code IDE
- Automated and manual grading capabilities
- An AI assistant, with chat functionality
- Session playback for detailed review
- Support for: Node.js, Python, Java, Go, .NET
- Frontend frameworks: React, Angular, Vue
- Database integration: PostgreSQL, MySQL
- Example and custom projects
- Full enablement support: working sessions, examples, and training to make adoption seamless
- Hands-on support: examples, docs, and training for building new questions
Coming soon:
- Follow-up questions with voice and video to test candidate understanding
- Enhanced AI assistant:
- Multi-model support
- Contextual code assistance
- Additional language support for more teams:
- Android emulators
- Spreadsheets
- Rails, Rust, R and more!
Ready to hire your next great developer?
Get started on designing your first Project. If you want to see examples tailored to your stack, reach out and we’ll get you started!
