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Making candidates white board is basically an ego driven hazing process, "we had to do this stupid exercise, so you have to as well! Ha ha!" It also gives peop

Making candidates white board is basically an ego driven hazing process, "we had to do this stupid exercise, so you have to as well! Ha ha!" It also gives people a bad taste in their mouth, don't ever forget the candidate is interviewing the company as well. The best response is to immediately walk up and leave when asked to white board something, stating something to the effect of "sorry but if this is your company culture, I'm not a good fit". I know several people who have done this and were hired anyway. Look at a candidates successes and body of work, if their competency isn't obvious from what they have demonstrably accomplished, they probably aren't the right candidate. No amount of white boarding (or the nonsensical "thought exercise" questions) is going to change that.

chrshawkes 7y ago
I do this but clarify what the interview process is like as a first step to communicating with a company. As soon as they state this as their intention I tell them I'm not interested. I've been hired at places anyways. My personal opinion is that I have enough projects, years of experience getting a paycheck each week and GitHub/Stack Overflow contributions to verify I at least have a grasp of what it takes to be a web programmer. I refuse the white board exercises outright. I won't do large homework assignments either.
souprock 7y ago
There is no public body of work if the person kept busy working under an NDA. You certainly couldn't see the code (not that you could know who did what as part of a team) and you might not even get to know what the project was.