A listing of companies that don't do whiteboard job interviews

Post by astura » Mon, Mar 04, 2019, 9:13 PM UTC

seattle_spring wrote: post #198

astura wrote: post #95

In at least 20 interviews over the years I've never had a white board interview, I assume that's mostly a west coast/SV/startup thing.

If you don't mind me asking: How much do you get paid, and what sort of interesting problems at scale do you get to work on? The salary I make and the interesting stuff I get to work on is worth the song and dance I've got to perform every few years, in my opinion.

Post by marssaxman » Tue, Mar 05, 2019, 9:17 PM UTC

ffgvdddfvg wrote: post #190

isoskeles wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is providing a code editor or text editor different than writing it out on the whiteboard? I do a similar process and don't care if their syntax is exactly correct. I, maybe different from the person you're responding to, don't care if they use exact libraries in the precisely correct way. But I do care that they're able to come up with a plausible solution. At a point, I see people gripe about whiteboard intervi…

With white board you have to worry about -legibility and penmanship -size of your letters because you don’t want to run out of space These are things not related to programming or the problem at hand.