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Code Insider 5: Coderpad.io

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Hi! I'm the floppy-haired guy in the interview. If you have any questions, please launch them at me via your comment boxes.

You rock.

You have high fidelity repls for python and ruby. The Perl hi fi repl is called Reply (https://metacpan.org/pod/Reply). If you are interested check out the plugins -- especially for Term::ReadLine::Gnu. If you have questions, let me know.

Most languages probably don't have the ability to download dependencies from the internet on the fly. That might be a nice feature to have.

Hey Vincent! I realize we never actually discussed this in the published interview, but do you have any idea how much "better" CoderPad is quantitatively than other interview tools? Do companies see X% fewer false positives if they use CoderPad, for example?

It's hard to say what the false positive rate is without a bit more data than companies are willing to give so far. We are lining up case studies with a few of our larger customers, though, so we hope to have something for you in the future.

We HAVE polled interviewing engineers, and we find that something like 75%+ of them find the tool to be a more pleasant experience. I think the actual top benefit of CoderPad is that by not having a barbaric interview environment, you're better able to close the talent you actually want.

Love the "READ_THIS_IF_YOU_ARE_TRY_TO_HACK_ME" file. It's a pretty clever tool and I imagine it'd be great for future interviews. Something to keep in mind, although I can't imagine it being a huge subscriber base.

For my remote coding interviews recently I have been using the Chrome Remote Desktop plugin. I give the candidate control over my computer and we work through some exercises together. It works really well because they can use whatever editor they're comfortable in, have the REPL available, etc...

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