CodePair
Productivity
interview tools
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How HN took it
9 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 7 critical, out of 24 comments about the project. Thread score +0.09.
Idea: 6 for, 5 againstDesign: 0 for, 2 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful for hands-on coding early in hiring
From 3 comments
For the nay-sayers out there: You have clearly not been anywhere near the hiring funnel of a tech company. The sheer number of people with impressive academic credentials, even…
mseebach on HNOne anectdote, for whateever it's worth - Our company adopted online code testing, in which the screening interviewer (as opposed to the entire interview team) tossed out sample…
ghshephard on HNThis is awesome. I always ask people to code in phone interviews and I use Googe Docs. You will be surprised at the number of people who have good resumes but cannot code at all.…
vadepaysa on HN
Objections
Interviews should not be depersonalised or made into a challenge-only process
From 3 comments
Impressive. But this product also makes me depressed. It dehumanizes the interview process. My question is why don't you just have a challenge server, like facebook?
iamleppert on HNI'm not sure how I'd feel about doing some coding before I even went through other parts of the interview process or meeting the team I'd be working with. This sends me the…
taude on HNThis is pretty cool for phone interviews, but I certainly do hope that people refrain from using this as their only method of interviewing candidates.
kirang1989 on HN
Risk of cargo-cult bad coding questions
From 1 comment
I was referring to long standing problem of tech interviewers of getting caught up in academic style programming questions as if they're representative of the work that's…
bretthopper on HN
Requests
Remove email signup requirement
From 1 comment
This is really cool! A few things though: * You probably have your reasons, but requiring an email to simply test it out is too much IMO. I don't want to go through the email…
k3n on HN
Shorter URLs
From 1 comment
I'd also have to add the URLs are too long. With Collabedit I'm often telling the candidate the URL over the phone. The unique IDs for a Codepair page are just too much to read…
konspence on HN
More details on supported languages
From 2 comments
This is really cool! A few things though: * You probably have your reasons, but requiring an email to simply test it out is too much IMO. I don't want to go through the email…
k3n on HNWhy isn't there more information like a list of languages/compilers etc? The site needs to say more than "contact us" or try an interview to figure out what you can do with it.
coldcode on HN
Questions
Which came first, CoderPad or CodePair?
From 1 comment
Suspiciously similar. Which came first, CoderPad or CodePair?
thewillcole on HN
Are the tests canned and can candidates prepare?
From 1 comment
Are all the tests canned? Wouldn't people be able to figure them out ahead of time and prepare the right answers?
coldcode on HN
Alternatives named
CoderPad
From 1 comment
For anyone looking for a similar take with a larger focus on real-time REPL experimentation during the coding interview, check out: https://coderpad.io/
akanet on HN
Collabedit
From 1 comment
I'd also have to add the URLs are too long. With Collabedit I'm often telling the candidate the URL over the phone. The unique IDs for a Codepair page are just too much to read…
konspence on HN
Stypi or Google Docs
From 1 comment
At my last gig we used Stypi or Google Docs plus a phone to do live code exercises, and CodePair likes like a step up from that. But what we're running at my current gig is…
Lambent_Cactus on HN
HireSync
From 1 comment
Shameless plug for my sideproject I'm currently working on, http://hiresync.io which is aiming to do much of the same thing.
Ave on HN