The Forbes AI 50 recognizes the world’s most forward-thinking AI companies. These are the teams leading the AI revolution. We’re proud to support over two-thirds of them.

From building foundation models to shipping AI-native apps, these companies are at the cutting edge. They need technical talent that can move fast – skilled coders and problem solvers who think in systems, collaborate well, and leverage AI-driven workflows.

Hiring for the AI era

Great AI companies aren’t just hiring any developer. They’re hiring engineers who embrace building with modern tools, solve complex problems, and work hands-on with AI.

CoderPad helps the AI 50: 

• Focus on building badass tech while we streamline the hiring process behind building badass teams
• Evaluate practical coding skills, not just resumes 
• Move fast without sacrificing hiring quality

We make it easier to spot real talent and give every candidate a chance to show what they can do.

We’re just getting started

If you’re building the future of tech, we’re here to help you hire the technical talent who’ll shape it.

These recognitions are especially meaningful because they’re driven entirely by real customer reviews. Every score, ranking, and badge reflects the experiences and feedback of the teams who use CoderPad every day to run fair, realistic, and effective technical interviews. 

Thank You to Our Customers 

This achievement belongs to our customers, the hiring managers, recruiters, engineers, and talent teams who took the time to share honest feedback on G2. Your reviews help other buyers make confident decisions, and they help us continue to improve CoderPad in ways that matter most to you.

We’re grateful for your trust and partnership.

What It Means to Be G2 Leaders 

Hiring teams are making high‑impact decisions based on the tools they choose—decisions that affect candidates’ careers, team performance, and company growth. That’s why independent, peer‑driven reviews on G2 carry real weight. They reflect how products perform in the real world, under real hiring pressure, as evaluated by the people who rely on them every day.

That’s what makes this recognition especially meaningful.

These badges signal that CoderPad:

• Is highly rated by customers compared to competitors
• Meets the needs of modern technical hiring teams
• Performs especially well for mid-market organizations balancing scale, speed, and quality

Because G2 rankings are based on direct customer feedback, this recognition serves as powerful third-party validation of the work we do.

Why This Matters for Technical Hiring Teams

Technical hiring is high-stakes—for candidates and companies alike. Teams need tools that are accurate, fair, and easy to use, without adding unnecessary friction to the interview process.

Our G2 Leader badges reflect what customers consistently tell us:

• Interviews should mirror real work — CoderPad enables realistic, collaborative coding environments
• Candidates deserve a great experience — less pressure, more signal
• Hiring teams need reliable signal fast — without compromising quality

Being recognized across both the overall and Mid-Market grids shows that CoderPad scales with teams as they grow, while still delivering depth and flexibility.

CoderPad continues to raise the bar for technical skills screening

We were especially excited to earn the Momentum Leader badge in the Momentum Grid® as that recognizes products that rank in the top 25% of their category by users. We have built our screening tool that has core features that TA teams need as well as innovating to stay AI-forward and build tools that assess how candidates actually build, debug, and collaborate today. At CoderPad, we’re applying AI deliberately and responsibly to improve signal—not replace human judgment. Our newest Projects feature brings real‑world, project‑based screening into the interview process, helping teams evaluate how candidates think, build, and collaborate in scenarios that mirror the job itself. It’s a continuation of our commitment to assess real skills, reduce bias, and create a better experience for both candidates and interviewers.

Being recognized by G2 reinforces what our customers are telling us: CoderPad is helping teams hire with more confidence, clarity, and fairness. We see this recognition not as a finish line, but as motivation.

We’ll continue investing in:

• Reimaging technical hiring for an AI-forward workforce
• Better tools for assessing real-world skills
• Improvements to interviewer and candidate experience
• Features that support teams hiring at scale

See why hiring teams at leading companies trust CoderPad

CoderPad streamlines your technical hiring with realistic assessments, exceptional candidate experiences, and better recruiter-engineer collaboration, so TA teams can hire better engineers, faster. Get in touch with our team today to see why 4000+ companies trust CoderPad for their technical hiring. Find time with our team.

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!

We want all current and prospective customers to be assured that their employee data and any other custom data they bring into CoderPad is strongly secured at all times. We also want all candidates who use our platform to have the same assurance that their privacy and the data they bring into the platform is also strongly secured at all times.

This is why I’m very excited to announce that CoderPad is now SOC2 certified.  

SOC2 certification, issued by the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA), signifies that CoderPad has implemented strict information security policies and procedures. It demonstrates a commitment to ensuring the security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy of customer data. 

For both customers and candidates, our SOC2 certification provides assurance that CoderPad takes data security seriously by protecting all of our data from breaches and unauthorized access. 

In addition to being the industry leader in skills-based hiring, CoderPad’s commitment to customer and candidate data security sets us apart from our competitors. With the addition of SOC2 certification, we’re proud to be the most secure product on the market.

Of course, our SOC2 certification is in addition to all of the usual security measures we take and measures we take to be compliant with United States and International law.

For infrastructure and application security, CoderPad utilizes industry standard cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Heroku, securing its infrastructure using the CIS Benchmark, weekly vulnerability scans, and a clear patch management policy. Additionally, CoderPad undergoes a yearly penetration test, offers a Bug Bounty program, and ensures new product features and internal processes undergo security assessment prior to release, enhancing practices based on industry shifts and customer input.

For data protection, CoderPad provides single sign-on (SSO) for streamlined authentication and adheres to privacy regulations, being GDPR and CCPA compliant. Data is stored using AES256 encryption, and all web communication uses at least TLS1.2. Additionally, payment data is handled securely through Stripe without storage or processing on our end.

For internal security measures, we have a full-time CISSP-certified Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and a Data Privacy Officer (DPO), Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for critical tool access, and an Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) security tool on professional endpoints monitored by a security operations center. Additionally, users receive surface encryption on professional endpoints, attend yearly cybersecurity and privacy awareness programs, and adhere to internal cybersecurity policies based on the ISO 27000 framework.

Full details of our security measures can be seen at https://coderpad.io/security/.

Since CoderPad was founded, we have been the industry leader in skills-based hiring. With our SOC2 certification, we’re now very happy to say we are the industry leader in customer and candidate data security, availability and privacy. Of course, customer and candidate security needs will continue to evolve over time. CoderPad’s commitment now and in the future is to be the most secure platform all while being the best solution for skills based hiring in the world.

I am excited to announce that you can now use CoderPad to assess your candidates’ spreadsheet skills to see how they concatenate, navigate pivot tables, do a VLOOKUP and more!

‘Traditional’ hiring process – ineffective and a poor candidate experience

Until now, there has not been a good way to interview candidates whose success in the role is dependent on how skilled they are in spreadsheets. Traditional spreadsheet-based interviews typically result in a poorly defined process that looks sort of like this:

1. Send a spreadsheet by email to the candidate
2. The candidate either works on their own time or…
3. The interviewer watches them work on a Zoom

There’s no collaboration, no ability to add live comments or take good notes, and overall is a poor experience for interviewers and candidates alike.

Spreadsheet interviewing now made easy with CoderPad

Now with CoderPad Interview, you can collaborate in real time with your candidates using a fully-functional instance of Google Sheets:

• Create a question in Google Sheets that can be used for every interview
• Include task instructions that are clear to the candidate
• Video chat with candidates with embedded video (no need to have several apps open)
• Add new tabs in your spreadsheet
• Take private notes only viewable by you that are saved to the interview

We’re excited to bring this new functionality to help hiring managers level up the way they interview for spreadsheet skills.

Test candidates spreadsheet skills today, with an unlimited 14-day trial

If you want to play around a bit with the spreadsheet environment, take it for a test drive in the sandbox below.

“Developers today are facing a mixed macroeconomic climate, a rapid technological shift with generative AI making their jobs more efficient, and constantly shifting workplace dynamics with RTO back in full force.

Meanwhile, recruiters are learning how to incorporate new tools to improve the overall hiring experience while facing smaller recruiting teams in recent years.

As both sides adjust to an AI-driven future and the implications on their roles, breaking technical roles into specific skills and having the ability to sufficiently evaluate those skills will lead to the most success. Businesses need to lean on technology more than ever to grow their business and achieve their plans, and that only happens if they have the right skills on their team.”

Amanda Richardson, CEO at CoderPad

Job market sentiment

About one quarter (26%) of tech recruiters will have more budget to recruit for technical roles in 2024 than last year. But unease in the job market persists, as 21% of developers say they felt less secure in their job, up from 17% last year. Despite the unease – or perhaps because of it – almost two-thirds of developers (59%) either recently switched jobs or are considering exploring new roles over the next year. The top three reasons for a move are:

• Better advancement opportunities: 52% 
• Higher salary: 48% 
• To escape boredom and find new challenges: 28% 

While money is a motivating factor in finding a new job, companies looking for the key to retention might be surprised that salary doesn’t even break the top three reasons developers stay in a job. The survey revealed work/life balance (38%), great colleagues (37%), and exciting challenges (27%) are what entice employees to stay put.

While poor management is often cited as a main factor in an employee’s decision to leave a company, technical managers are doing something right, with almost three-fourths (75%) of developers happy with their current manager.

Impact of AI

43% developers are optimistic about AI in their daily work, while 27% are neutral, 23% are skeptical, and only 7% are worried about the technology’s impact on their career or job prospects. Adoption is high among tech professionals: nearly two-thirds (67%) already use AI as part of their job, while 70% think that AI will help reduce their workload, and 60% would like to use it more as part of their job. Among those using AI at work, the two most common tools used are ChatGPT (60%) and GitHub’s Copilot (18%). The top five use cases are:

1. Code assistance (including debugging): 59%
2. Learning and tutorials: 54%
3. Autocompletion/code generation: 45%
4. Documentation and API support: 26%
5. Prototyping and idea generation: 24%

Developers aren’t the only ones using AI in their daily work, reflecting a growing trend among recruiters seeking efficiency in the hiring process. More than one-third (38%) of tech recruiters are using AI in the hiring process, while one-third say they are prioritizing AI tools as their number one investment in 2024. Despite AI’s popularity in the tech industry overall, its use by candidates in the hiring process is controversial. More surprisingly, candidates themselves are more likely to think using AI during a job interview is cheating (33%), compared to one-quarter (23%) of recruiters. Only 8% of recruiters encourage the use of AI during interviews, and almost half (48%) saying its acceptability depends on usage.

Skills, Skills, Skills

For the first time, the survey found that recruiters anticipate struggling to recruit AI/machine learning specialists to meet new demand. The top roles that recruiters believe will be a challenge to recruit in 2024 include:

1. Back-end developer/engineer: 21%
2. AI/Machine learning specialist: 18%
3. Full-stack developer/engineer: 15%

AI’s impact goes beyond technological; it’s fundamentally changing the types of skills needed for every job, from the C-suite to an internship. AI can help optimize daily work, making many workers more efficient—and as a result, skills such as communication, critical thinking, and the ability to take and give feedback are front and center. Soft skills, often overlooked or undervalued in technical roles, are gaining prominence. The majority of both developers (78%) and recruiters (81%) say soft skills are at least as important as hard skills in evaluating software engineers. However, 20% of recruiters cite challenges in effectively evaluating these crucial attributes.

“Recruiters should shift their focus from categorizing skills as either hard or soft and instead recognize the value in all skills. The key is to identify the right mix of technical and non-technical abilities essential for success in a particular role, and then tailor the hiring process to better evaluate those skills that really matter.”

Amanda Richardson, CEO at CoderPad

For more information, view the full report here.

These changes reflect our dedication to breaking the status quo in technical hiring and pushing to foster transparency in the process. We are here to empower you with the tools you need to make your developer hiring process a success.

Last year, we saw the tech job market shift significantly from the highest of highs to countless rounds of layoffs and endless uncertainty. We witnessed ChatGPT shake the industry to its core and make a massive impact on how we think about and do work. It was a year of big changes for tech and beyond. 

What hasn’t changed though is CoderPad’s commitment to make technical hiring better.

We continuously improve and evolve to match the reality of the tech industry, and to enable companies like yours to create the best possible hiring experience for candidates, talent acquisition teams, and engineering managers. 

Our new identity matches the bold ambition we emanate.

It reflects the goal core to our DNA: to make technical hiring faster, fairer, and more real. We’re challenging the norm, aiming to reduce bias at every stop in the hiring journey, and helping teams create an environment where true skills-based hiring is the reality. 

No matter what success looks like for you in 2024—building out a new team, filling spots on an existing one, developing new roles to harness the power of AI, or upskilling your current staff—CoderPad is here, bolder and more steadfast than ever before.

Happy 2024 everyone!

Happy holidays and cheers to a healthy and prosperous new year!

CoderPad Screen

Custom multiple-choice question import tool

Import hundreds of multiple-choice questions in seconds through a .csv file with the new question import tool. By adding your own custom content, you can create tests that are more specific to business and use cases, and provide a better candidate experience.

New cheating alerts

Get alerts when candidates’ behavior or performance is unusual, or if plagiarism is detected. Feel confident that candidates’ answers are based on their knowledge and skills.

Redesigned question editor

Easily create your own coding questions to match the role-required skills perfectly. Creating your own coding exercise with clearly outlined steps is now very quick. As a bonus, custom questions are much more resistant to cheating and answerable by ChatGPT. 

New question bank viewer 

Explore the question bank without the need to create a test. Browse through all the questions, including any custom questions you’ve created, and filter them by type, duration, difficulty, skill, domain, and source.

AI-generated follow-up questions

Challenge candidates’ answers with follow-up questions. Ensure they have the required skills and can back up their answers. The follow-up questions are automatically generated by AI, based on the specific code the candidate provides.

New games available

New games have been released throughout the year to ensure a higher test completion rate and improve candidates’ experience. All games are language-agnostic. Look for:

• Interlocked Blocks
• Transform an array using 2×2 patterns
• Moving atoms on a grid

New accessibility features

We’ve added new features to our IDE to make it more accessible and improve the experience for both users and candidates: 

• Keyboard navigation: users can now navigate our IDE using their keyboards, without the need of a mouse or a trackpad. 
• Reducing horizontal scrolling: adapted content sections to remove horizontal scrolling for better navigation on smaller screens.
• Theme high-contrast: the IDE is now adjusting with the high contrast mode, allowing better accessibility and visibility for partially sighted persons.

New test creation flow

Creating a test has never been easier! Instead of scrolling through options, you can now select a role and see suggestions for related technologies, speeding up the test creation and making it even easier for non-technical team members to create tests.  A smart search will also help you spot the right technologies by handling spelling mistakes and synonyms.

Java 17

Test candidates on Java 17 features like: including sealed classes, pattern matching for instanceof, text blocks, records, switch expressions, and more. This update enables candidates to showcase their knowledge of this version.

Test list and sort filters

A new test page for you to navigate easily through all existing tests and find a test without the need to scroll anymore. We added:

• See the test with the most recent activity or the test with the most candidates
• Find the tests you need with the advanced search options
• Delete or archive tests in bulk.

CoderPad Interview

Data science interviews and Jupyter Notebooks

Interview data scientists in a realistic, collaborative Jupyter Notebooks environment, with increased processing power, the ability to import any package you need, and the interviewer tools you’re used to having with CoderPad.

Multi-file projects

Conduct more realistic interviews with a straightforward multi-file layout. Drag & drop your own project files into the file tree to get started, organize code just like on your own computer and use the built-in shell to install any packages or libraries.

Candidate waiting room

Customize the waiting room with your branding and logo, welcome message, videos, images and more, so candidates are reassured they’re in the right place if they arrive before the interviewer.

AI Assist

Provide interviewees with ChatGPT access within the pad to showcase their prompt engineering skills and assess their critical thinking processes. All prompts and generated data are recorded and accessible in the code playback when the interview ends.

Drawing mode updates

Boost your interviews with visual prompts, saving time and creating a dynamic and realistic experience to engage your interviewees. Sketch together in real-time with an easy-to-use tool to visualize your interview.

Follow-the-user

Automatically follow another pad participant’s cursor around the pad as they write code, even when they switch between different files in frameworks pads. 

Save your code from a pad or sandbox as a question

Save a snapshot of the code in a pad or sandbox as a draft question, to use it for future interviews. You can add instructions and more, and finalize your question from the drafts folder. 

Drag & drop files into a frameworks pad

Drag and drop your folders or files into the file tree of a frameworks pad, and your files will upload immediately. You can clone a repo and drag and drop a folder from your desktop.

Copy-paste detection in Code Playback

Gain more insight into your candidate’s code with copy-paste detection in playback. The copied content from an external source is highlighted with a yellow dot.

Refreshed languages menu

The search bar and the new categories filter will make it easier for you to navigate our growing list of languages, frameworks, and notebooks. Each language also has additional information about its configuration details and libraries – hover and select “Info”.

Platform

Shared experience

This year, CoderPad introduced the product switcher to navigate between Screen and Interview products without needing to log in again or join from another environment. All users can benefit from both products at no additional cost, and your plan credits can be used in Screen or Interview.

CoderPad Interview Updates

Multi-File Capabilities for Java, Python, Typescript, Ruby and Go.

CoderPad multi-file projects offer a highly realistic and flexible environment, where you can add more files, write and run unit tests, install packages from the shell, and more. This is available for Java, Python, Typescript/Javascript, Ruby and Go.  Get started by selecting a multi-file project from the languages menu in a pad or sandbox, or create a new question from the dashboard.

Refreshed Languages Menu

We’re doing a light UI update of the in-pad language selection menu, to make it easier to navigate our growing list of languages, frameworks, and notebooks. We’ve already added a search bar, and the new categories filter will make it easier to filter and find the right language category for your interviews.

Drawing Mode Interviews

Want to talk through a system architecture or design problem? Or show how databases are connected and work together? Get ready for a whole new digital whiteboard experience! In addition to the recent UI overhaul, soon you will be able to spin up a dedicated Drawing Mode pad with an image already uploaded for you to work on with a candidate.

CoderPad Screen Updates

Code Playback for Text Questions

Code playback is now available for text questions. Like with coding exercises, playback lets you see how the candidate wrote the answer to give you some insight into their train of thought and problem solving. This will be particularly handy when using follow-up questions to understand how candidates got their coding exercise responses.

 High-Contrast Theme

The IDE now incorporates high contrast mode for better accessibility for partially sighted people. The high contrast mode will automatically turn on when enabled on your operating system.

Follow-Up Questions [Open Beta]

Concerned that candidates will paste code from ChatGPT and give an inaccurate view of their coding skills?

While many talented developers use tools to jog their memories or speed up the process, the problem lies when people blindly copy and paste code they don’t truly understand.

CoderPad is introducing a feature to address this issue. You’ll have the option to activate AI-generated follow-up questions for coding exercises, based on the specific code the candidate provides. This will give insight into whether the candidate truly understands the code. Get started.

AI Assistant [Beta]

A new AI Assistant is now available in beta when clicking on the Contact Us button in CoderPad Screen. This tool can give you an immediate answer to common questions, eliminating the need to visit our docs or message support.

So today, we are excited to announce the launch of Code Challenges on Linkedin Learning, powered by CoderPad. Aspiring and seasoned developers can now take over 30 + coding courses in Python, Java, SQL, JavaScript, C#, and Go in an interactive environment that provides real-time feedback. With Code Challenges, learners can stand up generative AI models, cut their teeth on advanced JavaScript, solve real-world data problems, and more. 

Learning through doing is a proven strategy for skill building, and that’s what you get with LinkedIn Learning’s Code Challenges. Whether you’re just starting out or an experienced software developer, new Code Challenges courses allow you to upskill with several challenges per course, so anyone can not only learn but apply those skills right away.

Ready for a challenge? 

Try LinkedIn Learning Code Challenge courses, powered by CoderPad and free through Dec. 18, 2023:

Coding Labs 

1. Python Practice: Object-Oriented Programming
2. Python Practice: Operations
3. Python Practice: Collections
4. SQL Practice: Window Functions
5. SQL Practice: Basic Queries
6. SQL Practice: Intermediate Queries
7. Java Practice: Functional Programming
8. Java Practice: Collections
9. Java Practice: Exception Handling
10. JavaScript Practice: Object-Oriented Programming
11. JavaScript Practice: Scope and Closures
12. JavaScript Practice: String Manipulation
13. JavaScript Practice: Events
14. C# Practice: Attributes
15. C# Practice: Interfaces and Abstract Classes
16. C# Practice: Generic Collections
17. Go Practice: Concurrency
18. Go Practice: Functions

Advanced Courses

1. Hands-On AI: Build a Generative Language Model from Scratch
2. Hands-On Advanced Python: Data Exploration and Manipulation
3. Advanced Python: Build Hands-On Projects with Design Patterns
4. Solve Real-World Data Problems with SQL
5. JavaScript: Five Advanced Challenges and Concepts
6. Advanced Java: Hands-on with Streams, Lambda Expressions, Collections, Generics and More
7. Advance Go Programming: Data Structures, Code Architecture, and Testing
8. Treating Go as an Object-Oriented Language
9. Advanced C#: Hands-on with LINQ, Dynamic Type, Extension Methods, and Tuples

Programming Language Essentials

1. Learning Python
2. SQL Essential Training
3. JavaScript Essential Training
4. Learning Java
5. Learning C#
6. Learning Go