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Whether or not whiteboard interviews make sense for programmers is a different question than whether or not they are intended as an age filter.
by twblalock 7y ago
Whether or not whiteboard interviews make sense for programmers is a different question than whether or not they are intended as an age filter.
- Kapura 7y agoIf there is a portion of a programming interview that doesn't make sense for programmers; but the results of this section skew the results of the interview highly towards recent college graduates, what would you say is going on?
- jdauriemma 7y agoI think you're addressing a symptom, not a problem. When any candidate evaluation process is opaque, you invite bias into the process. Whether whiteboard interviews are useful or not is subject to debate (it's not a factual statement that whiteboard interviews are universally bad). Whether a whiteboard interview is done fairly and without bias is a different proposition altogether, and the interviewers can do a lot in order to address this concern.
- twblalock 7y agoThere are also portions of most interviews, e.g. system design questions, that heavily favor senior candidates.