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Whiteboards are great; the small company I work for currently has a whiteboard for every two engineers. “Whiteboard interviewing” is an unfortunate metonym for
by intuitionist 8y ago
Whiteboards are great; the small company I work for currently has a whiteboard for every two engineers. “Whiteboard interviewing” is an unfortunate metonym for making candidates solve tricky CTCI-style questions on a whiteboard with no help.
- kenhwang 8y agoCTCI-style questions on a whiteboard without any interaction from the interviewer is definitely a big red flag. Most of our whiteboard questions are solvable with simple if-statements, loops, and basic data structures; boxes and arrows are also appropriate if you communicate what's being abstracted away.
- pixelrevision 8y agoI think this is a really important distinction. A whiteboard is a good place to draw out a system design and inform the whole room how the pieces need to fit together. It is an important skill as a developer once you get to a certain point and is not a bad thing to ask a candidate to do. Asking to come up with a recursive pathing algorithm for your custom tree implementation in c on a whiteboard when they are applying for a ruby job maybe not so much....