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are there actually any tech companies that don't require whiteboard coding interviews?
by grillvogel 5y ago
are there actually any tech companies that don't require whiteboard coding interviews?
- handrous 5y agoYes, plenty, but they usually only pay "excellent by any normal standards" money, not "holy fucking shit, I going to retire well by age 45 while living like a king" money. Confusingly, there are also some in that category that whiteboard non-fresh-grads. As if there aren't offers available practically for the asking, in the market we've had for several years now, from places that don't do that, for anyone who has a record & references to point to, paying the same kind of money. The most annoying thing about this situation is that companies can be weirdly coy about offering any info about WTF their interview process is like. Except the actual big-boys (FAANG) who pretty much give you a study guide. Just a waste of everyone's time not to offer details about the kind of thing the interview will cover, up-front. "You'll be writing code on a whiteboard for three hours, and we're not going to tell you how we'll be judging what you write, or what we expect, or the sort of thing we'll ask you to do" OK, cool, bye, I'll use that day to interview with someone else then.
- peterhi 5y agoWe don't whiteboard. Though we do have a pile of paper on hand so that people can draw diagrams to better explain their solutions to the problems we put forward. Simple ones like improve this one table database into something "better" (3fn would be nice or explain why you would not do it this way)