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The whiteboard threads are always interesting to me because with more than ten years experience in software development in enterprise and startups now, I've nev
by 27182818284 7y ago
The whiteboard threads are always interesting to me because with more than ten years experience in software development in enterprise and startups now, I've never had to do a whiteboard interview.
Are they common outside the big six names? I.e., outside of Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Netflix? I wonder what the actual percentage of "Needed to pass a whiteboard-based Q&A to get a salaried position" is.
From my viewpoint, having never run in to them, they seem like something that was much more popular in the past, but now rarely used or only used at the aforementioned big six companies.
- luc4sdreyer 7y agoIn the 2019 Stack Overflow developer survey, 27.8% of respondents said they encountered whiteboarding as part of their last successful interview process that resulted in a job offer. https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#work-_-interview-practices https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#work-_-interv...
- 27182818284 7y agoOh cool, thanks for the link! I should have thought to look at SO, as I generally read those survey results, but it didn't occur to me to look for this question there. 28% is a bit higher than I would have guessed even to that answer.