This year, our mission was clear: to solve your most pressing challenges with tools that make hiring fairer, more engaging, and more effective.

In the end, it all comes down to helping you build the best tech team to deliver the most impactful products.

Here’s how we worked alongside you to tackle those challenges head-on.

1. Empowering recruiters and interviewers

Great tools make great teams. We focused on giving you features that simplify workflows, provide deeper insights, and save you time—so you can focus on what matters most: hiring the right people.

• Multifile projects in ten languages: Interviewers often ask, How can I create assessments that reflect real-world coding tasks? Multifile support let you test candidates on complex projects in their preferred languages, from Python to Scala.
• Drag-and-drop functionality for multifile pads: Setting up multifile projects used to be tedious. Now you can drag and drop existing repositories into our platform, getting up and running in seconds.
• Interview transcriptions: Taking notes during live interviews? That’s so 2023. Transcriptions gave interviewers a full text record, letting you stay focused on the conversation while still having everything you need for review later.
• Ashby and Taleez integrations: For teams using ATS platforms like Ashby or Taleez, sending tests and tracking results became seamless. No extra logins or data transfers—just one smooth workflow.
• Enhanced question discovery: What’s the right question for this role? Our improved search functionality took the guesswork out of assessment design, helping you easily discover the most relevant questions for your job descriptions.
• Revised question editor: Creating custom questions became faster and easier, thanks to our redesigned editor. Now, you can craft assessments that reflect exactly what your team needs.

2. Ensuring fairness and integrity in hiring

One of the biggest concerns we hear from recruiters is, How can I ensure every candidate has a fair shot? This year, we introduced tools to promote integrity and transparency so every decision you make feels sound and unbiased.

• Test availability windows: For university recruiting or high-volume campaigns, fairness starts with timing. This feature let recruiters define when tests could be accessed, creating a level playing field for candidates, no matter their schedules.
• Webcam proctoring: Remote testing shouldn’t mean compromising on integrity. This feature helped recruiters ensure assessments were fair by flagging unusual activities like no face on screen or multiple individuals present. Recruiters told us it gave them confidence that everyone was playing by the same rules.
• Refreshed reporting: We refreshed CSV exports to include new fields and made them easier to export. In addition, you’ll now find pad summaries, providing a concise overview of coding sessions to simplify evaluation and analysis.
• SOC2 certification: Hiring relies on trust, and security is a big part of that. By earning SOC2 certification, we proved our commitment to keeping sensitive data safe and private.
• Real-time suspicious activity alerts: To further ensure fairness, we added real-time suspicious activity alerts for interviews. These alerts help identify unusual behaviors during interviews, giving you confidence that evaluations remain transparent and fair.

3. Elevating the candidate experience

We know that a positive candidate experience is critical—not just for making great hires but for building your employer brand. Candidates want to feel valued, respected, and engaged. That’s why we delivered features that bring the best out of them during assessments.

• New gamified assessment questions: Candidates told us they loved the challenge of solving puzzles like Tetris or Battleships in their favorite programming languages. This playful twist on traditional coding tests kept them engaged while still showing off their problem-solving skills.
• Real-time collaborative spreadsheets: For roles where spreadsheets matter—think finance, sales, or data analysis—we made it possible for candidates to collaborate in real time during interviews. No more clunky workarounds, just seamless evaluation of real-world tasks.
• Custom question insights: Nothing frustrates candidates more than assessments that feel too easy—or impossible. Our insights provide you with data-driven recommendations to fine-tune your questions and make your tests more effective. By analyzing key metrics like completion rates, success rates, and timeout rates, we’re helping ensure questions hit the right level of challenge.

Ready to make 2025 the year of better decisions?

Start with a complimentary audit of your assessment and cheat prevention strategy. We surface all the opportunities for your team to make the best tech hiring decisions. 

CoderPad Screen updates

Test availability window

Need to make tests available for only a set time window (like for university recruiting or high-volume postings)? You can now set a custom time frame (for a few days, for example – or even a few hours) when your tests will be available for candidates. This feature is available for Enterprise and Custom accounts. 

Chinese language support for questions

We’ve just updated our question bank on CoderPad Screen to include support for viewing instructions in Chinese. Candidates can seamlessly switch between Chinese and English during their tests, ensuring a comfortable and inclusive experience.

CoderPad Interview updates

Export detailed usage reports

We’ve updated the Insights page usage reports to provide more detailed information across CoderPad Screen and Interview. Now, you can export two CSVs: one with total usage by calendar month, and another with detailed logs of each pad and test. Select your export, and the CSV will be emailed to you.

Drag and drop for multi-file pads

Drag your existing repo into a multi-file pad to quickly create a realistic interview environment. Then, you can save the whole pad as a reusable question. Select “Multi-file projects” in the languages menu to try it out in 10 of the most popular coding languages. 

Next.js pads

Need to conduct an interview with Next.js? Now you can – navigate to Languages -> Frontend Frameworks. We also created a Next.js example question that you can use as inspiration to get started!

CoderPad Play updates

We are excited to announce the launch of CoderPad Play, a thrilling and creative addition to our platform designed to inject fun and excitement into your tech challenges. 

CoderPad Play enables you to create engaging coding games and hackathons that foster collaboration, stimulate problem-solving skills, and provide fun for your team. Expect to build stronger teams, increase brand awareness, and create beloved team-building activities with challenges like puzzles, clash of code, escape games, and more. 

Learn more about CoderPad Play.

CoderPad Screen updates

Webcam proctoring – In beta and wider release coming soon!

Ensure the integrity of the hiring process in select geographic or competitive markets. Keep it fair for everyone (candidates and employers) with CoderPad proctoring, which will take photos of candidates every 10 seconds and alert you of suspicious behavior.

Webcam proctoring is only available to Custom or Enterprise plan customers. If you would like early access to this feature, please contact your Customer Success Manager or Support to join the beta. 

Proctoring preview from our recent What’s New in CoderPad webinar.

Cheating alerts included in your .csv exports

Any suspicious activity flags identified during the technical assessment will now be exported if you export via .csv, so you have visibility into suspicious behavior wherever you explore the data. 

New spreadsheet content available

We’ve just released a batch of new Excel questions on your CoderPad Screen platform. Whether you are looking to test for beginners or experts, these challenges are designed to test candidates’ spreadsheet skills. 

Ashby integration

You can now send CoderPad Screen assessments as part of your Ashby workflows! To set up the integration, please see our docs for step-by-step instructions.

CoderPad Interview updates

Interview transcriptions (Custom and Enterprise plans)

Get more context and better insights into your candidates skills with full-text transcripts of live interviews, when you use built-in CoderPad video calling.

• More context – Get a fuller picture of the candidate’s communication skills and review how they explained their code
• More focus – Helps interviewers be more focused in the interview and interacting with their candidates (and less focused on taking notes) 
• Better interviews – Talent teams can review the live interview transcripts for consistency and coaching opportunities for interviewers

React Native Web environment

We’ve released a React Native Web environment for teams hiring for mobile/React Native. 

Evaluate your candidates on their skills with React Native components, state management, testing with Jest, and building a responsive mobile UI. Try it out in a sandbox! 

CoderPad Screen updates

Insights into your custom questions

Custom questions are a highly effective way to assess the skills most important to your team. Now with more granular visibility into question performance (such as success rate and if candidates run out of time), you can better gauge if your questions are too complex or too easy and fine-tune them to be even more effective. 

Smart content search

Want to find more relevant content in the Screen question bank? With enhanced search on the Question page, you can find more questions associated with the keyword you enter – even if there are typos!

Warning for duplicate candidate invitations

A new warning alert will appear when sending multiple invitations to the same candidate either by .csv import or manual entry. Although this warning message won’t block the invitation, it will be triggered when:

• Several candidates are duplicated in the invitation form.
• Some candidates in the invitation form have already been invited to the same test.

Team workspaces for admins – Enterprise and Custom plans

New admin users will be automatically added to all teams you have set up in Screen. This will give admins an easy overview of account usage, and save you the hassle when adding an admin.

You can always use the “team admin” permission if you wish to restrict the resources users can see to the teams they belong to.

Webcam proctoring (beta)

If you need more reassurance of candidate integrity during your tech assessments, you can now enable webcam proctoring to alert you about suspicious candidate behavior. Webcam proctoring captures screenshots of candidates during the assessment and alerts you if:

• no face was detected during the test or part of the test
• several people were present during the test
• different faces were identified during the test

This feature is only available for customers on Custom or Enterprise plans. If you would like early access to this feature, please contact your Customer Success Manager or Support to join the beta. 

CoderPad Interview updates

Create multiple pads at once

We’ve made it easy to create multiple pads for a specific language environment with the “Create multiple pads” feature.

Clicking on this option allows you to generate a list of pads easily and set the pad titles ahead of time. You can grab the pad URLs and quickly send them out to your candidates — making your interview process that much more efficient.

Interview transcriptions (beta)

Get full-text transcripts of live interviews when you use built-in CoderPad video calling.

• Get a better picture of the candidate’s communication skills and review how they explained their code
• No more note taking necessary! Interviewers can focus solely on the interview and conversation
• Help your team become better interviewers! Talent teams can review the  interview transcripts for consistency and coaching opportunities

Platform updates

CoderPad’s SOC2 certification

We are thrilled to announce that we have are SOC2 certified! In addition to our other security practices and certifications, we are deeply committed to keeping your data (and your candidates’ data) protected and private. You can learn more about all of CoderPad’s security and privacy measures here.

CoderPad Interview updates

Multifile projects for ten languages! Including Scala

By popular request from our customers – we just added Scala to the growing list of languages available as a multi-file project. Scala runs with sbt. Try it out in a Scala sandbox!

Multi-file projects are available for Java, Python3, C, C#, C++, Go, Ruby, TypeScript/Javascript, and Scala.

Spreadsheets are now available for live interviews

Now, you can collaborate in real-time with your candidates using a fully-functional instance of Google Sheets. This is perfect for finance, sales, data science, or operational roles.

• 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)
• Restrict access to the pad after the interview
• Take private notes only viewable by you that are saved to the interview

Create multiple pads for fast scheduling

Optimize your workflow by creating all the pads you need in a single step. From the Interview dashboard, click on the “Create Pad” dropdown button and select “Create Multiple Pads”. You can name each individually (usually candidate name), or create a set number of pads and name them later.

CoderPad Screen updates

New gamified questions are available!

Introducing four new games with various difficulty levels in CoderPad Screen. They are language-agnostic and can be played in 13 programming languages.

Webcam proctoring (beta)

If you need more reassurance of candidate integrity during your tech assessments, you can now enable webcam proctoring to alert you about suspicious candidate behavior. Webcam proctoring captures screenshots of candidates during the assessment and alerts you if:

• no face was detected during the test or part of the test
• several people were present during the test
• different faces were identified during the test

This feature is only available for customers on Custom or Enterprise plans. If you would like early access to this feature, please contact your Customer Success Manager or Support to join the beta. 

Question flow with global timer

When selecting the global timer for your tests, candidates will automatically be shown the next question when submitting an answer to a question (previously, they were redirected to the table of contents and had to click on the question to access it). This will save your candidates extra clicks and save precious time to answer more questions.

Taleez integration

Using Taleez ATS? Send your tests, track candidates and access detailed reports directly in your Taleez platform from the candidate page.

Platform

Insights page

A new insight page is now available from the top navigation menu. This consolidated page will gather both data from your Screen and Interview usage simplifying navigation through the platform.

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

Refreshed language menu

The number of available languages and frameworks keeps growing so we’ve redesigned the language menu so you can find what you’re looking for more quickly. Now you can browse the list, type the language you’re looking for in the search bar, or navigate by category.

Multi-file capabilities for C++ [coming soon]

Want a more realistic and flexible interview environment where you can add additional files, write and run unit tests, and install packages from the shell? Opt for Multi-file Projects in the language selection menu. Currently available for Java, Python 3, Typescript/Javascript, C, C#, and Ruby, in the coming weeks this functionality will be extended to C++!

Starter diagrams for Drawing Mode [coming soon]

Start the system or database design portion of your interview with your own custom image already preloaded in CoderPad. With diagramming specific to your question, you can start collaborating with your candidate immediately. 

CoderPad Screen Updates

Add questions to your “Favorites”

To easily access frequently used questions, mark them as “favorites.” Favorite questions will appear first on the question page so you can select them directly to create tests, without needing to search or create a test from scratch.

New gamified questions available 

Two new games have been released in your Screen application; they are called:

• Transform an array using 2×2 patterns
• Moving atoms on a grid – Hard

We also added new AWS multiple-choice questions and 6 new coding exercises. The coding exercises and games are language-agnostic and can be played in 13 programming languages.

In addition to this new content, you can now use Spark in your custom Scala exercises.

Custom question import

You can now import multiple-choice questions in seconds via a .csv file. Click on the ‘Create question’ button from the question page and select ‘Import CSV’ in the top right corner. You can upload up to a thousand questions at once!

New test export option

When exporting candidates’ reports, you can now choose whether to include unusual activity alerts in your report.

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.

CoderPad Interview Updates

Jupyter Notebooks for data science interviews

Jupyter Notebooks (Minimal, R, TensorFlow, SciPy) are now available in the pad environment! Run awesome, on-the-job data science interviews using:

• Ability to increase processing power to handle large data sets
• A fully-functional Jupyter Notebook environment
• Ability to import and utilize any package or library
• Plot data and run individual cells in the notebook
• Access to the server, shell and console

Multi-file projects for Java, Python 3, and Typescript/Javascript – Open Beta

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.

Typescript/Javascript, Python 3 and Java are now available, with more languages coming in early October. Multi-file projects are currently in open beta. 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.

CoderPad Screen Updates

Dynamically saving code edits

When a candidate updates code in the Screen code editor, they are now saved automatically. Code can also be saved manually by using CTRL+S keystrokes.

Follow-up questions for cheating prevention – Beta

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

While many developers use these tools to be more efficient, the problem is when people blindly copy and paste code they don’t truly understand.

CoderPad Screen 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. If you’d like exclusive early access as a beta tester (in return for feedback), share your email address here or respond to this email.

Custom question page design update

The custom questions page now has the same design and features as the general question bank page. This will make it easy to create a test directly from your created content. 

CoderPad Interview Updates

Enhancements to Drawing Mode

Our virtual whiteboard tool just got a complete overhaul – with a new UI, the ability to easily attach lines to shapes, copy/paste, light/dark mode, grids, and keyboard shortcuts. 

Multi-file projects for Java, Python 3, and Typescript/Javascript – Beta

You will soon have access to a more realistic, multi-file environment for several backend languages – where you and your candidate can add more files and folders, install any packages you want using the built-in shell, and run test cases separately. This update is currently in beta and will be coming your way soon.

Jupyter Notebook support – Beta

Calling all data scientists!  Interview your data candidates in CoderPad Interview using Jupyter Notebook to get a better read on candidates’ thought processes and ability to draw conclusions and communicate clearly. We’ve also upgraded our processing power to handle extensive data sets.

CoderPad Screen Updates

Revised Question Editor

It’s now easier to create simple coding exercises to tailor tests to your company’s needs. With the revised question editor, you can create a new question in a few clicks. This will first be available for language-independent exercises.

Create a test from existing questions

You can now directly create a test from a selection of questions, bypassing the traditional test creation flow. This feature proves handy if you already have a clear idea of the questions you wish to include in the test or if you want to craft a test based on your custom content. Simply access the question tab and choose the questions you want.

Adding Rust to CoderPad Screen

In the Screen IDE, you can now execute and validate code written in the Rust programming language. This enhancement empowers you to craft custom coding exercises in Rust for your tests. Additionally, for those who prefer pre-made exercises, we will be introducing some for Rust later this year.

Java 17 Now Available

We have upgraded the CoderPad Screen platform from Java 11 to Java 17. Java 17 encompasses various features, including sealed classes, pattern matching for instance of, text blocks, records, switch expressions, and more. This update enables candidates to showcase their knowledge of this version.

Cheating Flag

We’re making it easy to flag candidates you suspect of cheating. When reviewing test reports, if you suspect a candidate of cheating, you can flag them. This action will apply a label to the candidate in the list, alerting your colleagues who review the list and allowing you to filter candidates based on this flag.