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Stop defending whiteboard interviews. We know [1] that they are inherently biased against certain groups and have a very large false negative rate. It amazes m
by woeirua 4y ago
Stop defending whiteboard interviews. We know [1] that they are inherently biased against certain groups and have a very large false negative rate.
It amazes me how many people will defend the current interviewing process and then openly admit that the majority of their engineers could not pass the same process without spending dozens of hours preparing.
[1] https://news.ncsu.edu/2020/07/tech-job-interviews-anxiety/ https://news.ncsu.edu/2020/07/tech-job-interviews-anxiety/
- Jensson 4y agoThat study lacks data. The entire result disappears if you exclude the women. And womens results looks strange, every woman does perfectly in the private version and every woman does horribly in the observed version. It is possible the interviewer either was a hot man who distracted the women, or he was a sexist creep who distracted them in other ways, or it was just random which is possible since there were so few women. But other than that the study didn't find any evidence that men have any issues with being observed while coding. So unless a better study comes around we can dismiss complaints about observed interviews being stressful unless it comes from a woman, it is in the study you linked after all. (I do believe there is a stress effect, but that study isn't showing it, need a bit more samples and probably several different observers to get better data)