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> the findings suggest that companies are missing out on really good programmers because those programmers aren’t good at writing on a whiteboard and explaining

> the findings suggest that companies are missing out on really good programmers because those programmers aren’t good at writing on a whiteboard and explaining their work out loud while coding Sure, no love for whiteboards from me. However, this does suggest an arbitrage opportunity for an employer who is willing to look differently at these candidates, and then profit handsomely, Moneyball-style. There's a bunch of money just being left on the table and nobody is picking it up, really? My two cents is that interviewing candidates can give a whole lot more insight into how to perform in an interview. Interview performance is a skill that is separate from the actual job, and gauging that performance is sub-optimal. But everything in this space is sub-optimal, it's all pick your poison.

juped 6y ago
Having capital or hiring authority doesn't correlate with willingness to try to actually hire value rather than assemble something that they think resembles a team. What I don't get is why no one is attracted by the social brownie points they'd end up with when their moneyballed team inevitably turns out to be 70% female.
SpicyLemonZest 6y ago
Many smaller companies do pick up the money, which is one of the major factors allowing them to succeed in a world where the big software companies toss around ridiculous amounts of compensation. The Googles and Facebooks of the world are structurally unable to do the arbitrage because many (probably most) of their interviewers don't particularly care about interviewing.