Hiring without whiteboards

#1

Post by sugarpirate » Wed, Mar 15, 2017, 5:31 AM UTC

Re: Hiring without whiteboards

#2

Post by vinhboy » Wed, Mar 15, 2017, 6:50 AM UTC

I think coderpad.io is the modern day equivalent of a whiteboard.

It's nice that you get REPL and a keyboard, but the unnecessary pressure of being watched, critiqued, and timed are all there.

My mind just goes completely blank whenever I am put in this scenario.

Are we programming or defusing a bomb?

Re: Hiring without whiteboards

#3

Post by mzzter » Wed, Mar 15, 2017, 6:54 AM UTC

vinhboy wrote: post #2

I think coderpad.io is the modern day equivalent of a whiteboard. It's nice that you get REPL and a keyboard, but the unnecessary pressure of being watched, critiqued, and timed are all there. My mind just goes completely blank whenever I am put in this scenario. Are we programming or defusing a bomb?

Defusing a bomb of course~

But yea that analogy fits coderpad well, along with all the other collaborative code editor + webcam websites.

Re: Hiring without whiteboards

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Mar 15, 2017, 6:57 AM UTC

vinhboy wrote: post #2

I think coderpad.io is the modern day equivalent of a whiteboard. It's nice that you get REPL and a keyboard, but the unnecessary pressure of being watched, critiqued, and timed are all there. My mind just goes completely blank whenever I am put in this scenario. Are we programming or defusing a bomb?

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Re: Hiring without whiteboards

#5

Post by zerr » Wed, Mar 15, 2017, 7:00 AM UTC

I'd like to have a separate list for companies that do paid real-world projects instead of CS riddles.

Re: Hiring without whiteboards

#6

Post by alaaibrahim » Wed, Mar 15, 2017, 7:02 AM UTC

Have you ever tried to bring a laptop to an interview, and asked to use it instead of the whiteboard? Believe me very few would object.

Re: Hiring without whiteboards

#7

Post by glibgil » Wed, Mar 15, 2017, 7:05 AM UTC

zerr wrote: post #5

I'd like to have a separate list for companies that do paid real-world projects instead of CS riddles.

Weebly

Re: Hiring without whiteboards

#8

Post by zerr » Wed, Mar 15, 2017, 7:05 AM UTC

vinhboy wrote: post #2

I think coderpad.io is the modern day equivalent of a whiteboard. It's nice that you get REPL and a keyboard, but the unnecessary pressure of being watched, critiqued, and timed are all there. My mind just goes completely blank whenever I am put in this scenario. Are we programming or defusing a bomb?

Well, these code/rpad/lity/rank sites are no different in terms of types of tasks... The problem is not only with a medium (whiteboard or *pad/lity/rank website) but also in what kind of problems you get to solve... Are these problems relevant to job? Is the condition/situation similar to what you'll be doing on the job? etc...

Re: Hiring without whiteboards

#9

Post by zbobet2012 » Wed, Mar 15, 2017, 7:08 AM UTC

vinhboy wrote: post #2

I think coderpad.io is the modern day equivalent of a whiteboard. It's nice that you get REPL and a keyboard, but the unnecessary pressure of being watched, critiqued, and timed are all there. My mind just goes completely blank whenever I am put in this scenario. Are we programming or defusing a bomb?

I think it's worse than a whiteboard. I have seen very few interviews that expected anything other than psuedo code on a whiteboard.

With a repl I could easily pin myself on some trivial bug that interviewers would ignore on the whiteboard...

Re: Hiring without whiteboards

#10

Post by whatwasmypwd » Wed, Mar 15, 2017, 7:11 AM UTC

Is pair programming really that different from whiteboarding?