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CoderPad
Company blog · coderpad.io/blog · on HN as akanetcareerprogramming
CoderPad is the company blog at coderpad.io, writing about career and programming. Since 2013, 21 different Hacker News readers have linked it 49 times, most often “CoderPad”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-10, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (13) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
CoderPad is an online interviewing platform, not a blog. Commenters mention using it for technical interviews and link its homepage, job postings, and product pages rather than any writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 13 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
See how candidates work with AI on real code. CoderPad Qualify, Screen and Interview cover every stage of technical hiring, from pre-screen to interview.
Most-linked posts?
- CoderPad9 people · 15 mentions · first linked 2013-07-01
- /2 people · 17 mentions · first linked 2013-06-22
- State of Tech Hiring in 20252 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-28
What Hacker News says?
For those interviewers and candidates looking for a better solution than the "google doc shared whiteboard" - I suggest checking out a product I make: https://coderpad.io/ You can think of it as a much higher fidelity Stypi, Etherpad, Collabedit, etc, except that you can run the code in the browser as you write it . It really helps alleviate the choking sensation of being asked to write out an entire problem on a wh…
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on “Show HN: Free, anonymous coding interview practice”Submitted Show HN: CoderPad, an etherpad + REPL for coding interviews as a story · 136 points
HN discussionCoderpad [1], an interviewing platform, is run by Vincent Woo [2]. [1] https://coderpad.io [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=akanet
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on “Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?”Submitted CoderPad as a story · 67 points
HN discussion> In fact, anything besides the candidate's native editing environment makes for an obtuse and off-putting experience, all around. And how would I use that, as an interviewer, in a phone screen, realistically? (I don't believe that I could — reliably — get them into a Google Hangout, for example.) (We used https://coderpad.io/ ; it was alright, and certainly better than Google Docs.)
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on “How to Interview Engineers”Submitted How much do we need to be in someone’s face? Dismantling technical interviews as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI found that the quip about how the document that they are sharing while having a conversation is not screensharing as we commonly understand it in modern parlance to be pretty illuminating. That modern screensharing is in several ways worse than a demo that came out decades ago is frankly amazing. I've tried to recapture a bit of that early magic with https://coderpad.io/ (multiple cursors, realtime editing/executi…
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on “A few words on Doug Engelbart”Submitted In the AI Era, Shopify Is Investing in Junior Engineers–Not Cutting Them as a story · 3 points
HN discussionNot at all. The phone screen I'm talking about is using https://coderpad.io/ which is an online shared programming environment. No white board involved, just a text editor and compiler, and whatever references, online information, or anything else you want to use.
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on “How I Became HackerRank 1 in Two Hours”Submitted State of Tech Hiring 2024 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionCoderPad | Various engineering positions | Full Time| REMOTE | https://coderpad.io/ CoderPad is on a mission to fix the technical interview process. We serve over 2,200 customers and have hosted more than 2.5 million technical interviews in 30+ programming languages since our launch in 2013. It works like an IDE to emulate real world scenarios and is easily personalized to specific team needs, ensuring a positive ex…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2021)”Submitted State of Tech Hiring '25 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionCoderPad | Various engineering positions | Full Time| REMOTE | https://coderpad.io/ CoderPad is on a mission to fix the technical interview process. We serve over 3,300 customers and have hosted more than 2.5 million technical interviews in 30+ programming languages since our launch in 2013. It works like an IDE to emulate real world scenarios and is easily personalized to specific team needs, ensuring a positive ex…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2021)”Submitted State of Tech Hiring in 2025 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIf anyone is looking for a similar system but more focused on collaboration and working on code in real-time, check out: https://coderpad.io The target use case is interviews, but it works well for a wide variety of use cases as well.
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on “Runnable – jsfiddle for everything”Submitted Web Components 101: History as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> but we of course do not share your data There you go buddy: "A record of everything the candidate types in the pad will be permanently saved for your team to review and share afterwards." https://coderpad.io/getting-started-recruiters
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on “CoderPad – Interviewing Platform for Programmers”Submitted The History of Web Components as a story · 1 points
HN discussionWe actually go a bit further in the interest of giving you more power - CoderPad uses ipython for its Python repl. You can read more about it at https://CoderPad.io/languages#python
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on “CoderPad – Interviewing Platform for Programmers”Submitted CoderPad Introduces Take-Homes for Developer Interviews as a story · 1 points
HN discussionWe also just added Swift support over at https://coderpad.io for anyone that wants to run swift during interviews. Amjad, I got started filing some issues against codemirror for better Swift support :) https://github.com/codemirror/CodeMirror/issues/3680
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on “Introducing the IBM Swift Sandbox”A bad phone interview is very different from age discrimination. Was this lazy interviewer even aware of the candidate's age? If this is all they have, this can't possibly go anywhere. Right...? Reading between the lines, it sounds like the guy got angry and argumentative with the interviewer, and that never ends in employment. A better legal angle could be that the crappy phone line is discriminatory against people…
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on “Google Sued by Job Candidate for Age Discrimination”Location: Baltimore/Washington DC Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: HTML, CSS, SCSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, custom WordPress development, AWS, system administration, DevOps LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kingkool68/ GitHub: https://github.com/kingkool68 Email: info@russellheimlich.com I am an experienced lead developer specializing in custom WordPress development. I design and develop high-pe…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2024)”As a shameless plug - if anyone's interested in a completely in-browser experience where you and a candidate can both write and EXECUTE code simultaneously, I make a tool for that: https://coderpad.io
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on “The Technical Interview Is Dead ”https://coderpad.io is a SaaS product I built that provides the highest fidelity experience out there currently for interviewing other programmers over the phone. I got to my current rev with a mix of self service plans and enterprise deals.
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on “Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?”I really feel for the author. I had a similar problem, except on the other side of the table - evaluating whether candidates' solutions while interviewing them over the phone was excruciating. I built https://coderpad.io to make the whole programmer-interview phone screen process easier. It's like Stypi on steroids, because it comes with a live REPL. You can play around with, say, JS, right there in the window. I've…
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on “Technical Interviews Make Me Cry”If you are looking for Etherpad-like tools specifically for collaborating on code, check out https://coderpad.io It's a tool I make that's geared around collaboratively editing and running code in the browser.
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on “Hackpad”I use https://coderpad.io/ for free for conducting interview. But YMMV...
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on “Show HN: CodeBlimp – Code Interviews Without Limits”And if you want to see if you could literally, truly derive a working solution to any of these puzzles in a realtime interview environment, I make a tool for that: https://coderpad.io It also works for administering the interview!
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on “Study material for tech interviews”Somehow, neither Facebook, nor Amazon, Netflix, Google nor Microsoft give home assignments as a prerequisite for entering into the process. I can assure you there is no shortage of candidates willing to work for any of them that would take the assignment in a heartbeat. I can assume the reason they are not giving assignments is what I stated, the hiring process is extremely expensive and it makes absolutely no sense…
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on “Spent 50 hours on a take-home assignment only to be ghosted”
