CoderPad vs. Codility: Higher Completion, Fewer Interviews
CoderPad delivers a single Screen → Interview flow that keeps candidates engaged, achieving 96%+ completion and reducing interview load by 33%.
Why Teams Choose CoderPad Over Codility
Codility’s assessments don’t reflect real engineering tasks. CoderPad uses practical, job-relevant challenges that mirror day-to-day work, delivering trusted, clear signal on top candidates.
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Real Work, Not Puzzles
CoderPad ensures your assessments accurately reflect the skills your candidates actually need to do the job.
- Projects and tasks aligned with your stack (languages, frameworks, and workflow)
- Real-time coding, testing, and iteration
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Candidate-First Experience
A low-friction workflow, familiar tools, and role-aligned tasks that candidates actually complete
- Clear prompts, minimal set-up, and faster starts
- Familiar IDE and workflow match
- 96%+ completion (vs. Codility’s ~60%)
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Hiring Alignment Across TA + Engineering
Single Screen → Interview flow and shared context drives faster hiring decisions and stronger collaboration
- Screen → Interview continuity (same project, code, tests)
- Shared context and handoff between TA and engineering
- Trusted evaluations deliver clear signal, reducing engineering interview loads by 33%
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High-Quality Hiring Decisions
Trusted, role-aligned signal from real work–clear decisions with higher confidence
- Reduce false positives by 40% to ensure you’re advancing qualified candidates
- Job-relevant projects predict day-one performance—fewer surprises and fewer backfills
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Flexible and Scalable
Usage-based pricing with unlimited users—flexible with hiring cycles
- No seat licenses, usage caps, or admin drag
- Scalable for businesses of all sizes—from startups to large enterprises
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Robust AI-Aware & Cheat-Resistant Assessments
Modern, AI-friendly assessments that stay fair and reveal true skills
- Protects against AI-generated cheating and shortcuts
- Open-ended, real-work tasks
See Why Leading Companies Choose CoderPad over Codility
Compare how CoderPad delivers better hiring outcomes compared to Codility—from candidate engagement to engineering alignment.
| Feature | Codility | |
|---|---|---|
| Assessment Style | Real-world, practical coding projects | Algorithmic puzzles that are not job-relevant |
| Candidate Experience | 96%+ completion rate | High drop off (~60%) |
| Platform Integration | Unified Screen → Interview platform | Fragmented, separate processes across Screen and Interview |
| Engineering Time Savings | 33% less interview time required | Higher interview load, repetitive screenings |
| Pricing Flexibility | Scalable, usage-based pricing | Fixed, rigid seat-based licenses |
| AI & Cheat Resistance | Adaptive, cheat-resistant design | Easily gamed and compromised |
| Candidate Preference | 16:1 candidate preference* | More friction, lower satisfaction |
*Source: Developer survey (2025). N = 19,000+ respondents; asks which platform candidates prefer for technical interviews. Methods available on request.
Since switching to CoderPad, I haven’t gotten one complaint from the engineering team. The tool just works for all of us so seamlessly.
Anyscale
Why Codility Users Make the Switch
Codility’s puzzle-heavy tests and inflexible platform stall your hiring and frustrate candidates.
CoderPad helps by
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Streamlining screening and interviewing into a unified workflow
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Delivering clear, measurable signals from job-relevant coding tasks
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Enhancing candidate experience and significantly reducing drop-off
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Improving collaboration and alignment between Talent Acquisition and Engineering teams
FAQs
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Engaging, realistic coding environments that candidates prefer. A survey of 19,000 candidates revealed a 20:1 preference over Codility, with higher completion rates, positive employer branding, and reduced candidate drop-off.
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Yes. CoderPad’s open-ended coding challenges naturally mitigate AI-generated cheating, allowing you to evaluate genuine skills and how candidates effectively leverage AI tools in realistic scenarios, including advanced coding assessments.
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Yes—with two paths. If you own the content, we’ll help you bring it into CoderPad and tune it for your roles and stacks. If the content is vendor-owned, we’ll recreate equivalent, role-aligned versions with your team—same skills, structure, and difficulty—without copying third-party IP.
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Yes–in two ways. CoderPad integrates with major ATS platforms, like Greenhouse, Lever, Workday—and scheduling tools like Calendly and GoodTime—so jobs, candidates, and interviews stay in sync. Additionally, we have a robust API and integrations that power leading brands, like LinkedIn Learning’s code product.
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CoderPad supports extensive tech stacks—over 99 languages and frameworks for live coding interviews and 65+ for automated screening assessments, including Python, Java, JavaScript, SQL, React, Flask, Node.js, and more.
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CoderPad maintains high enterprise-grade security standards, including GDPR, CCPA, and SOC 2 compliance, regular security audits, data encryption, strict role-based access controls, and rigorous privacy protections.
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Yes. CoderPad’s usage-based pricing model eliminates rigid seat-based licensing, providing scalable, flexible options for businesses of any size—from agile startups to large enterprises.
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Still using Codility? Your hiring team deserves better.
Outdated assessments create drop-off and rework—barriers to top talent. CoderPad’s Screen → Interview continuity delivers faster signal and aligns TA and Engineering, building confidence in your hiring.