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1. On-site Are the best developer candidates looking for on-site roles? I don’t know any that prefer an office setting. 2. Whiteboards Yet another way to tes
by dangus 3y ago
1. On-site
Are the best developer candidates looking for on-site roles? I don’t know any that prefer an office setting.
2. Whiteboards
Yet another way to test developers on stuff that is unrelated to the work. I don’t even like writing with my hands all that much because I’m on a keyboard all day.
I get into a whiteboard and I am being tested on writing skills, how visual my thought process is, how my handwriting is, how comfortable I am in a public speaking position…all great qualities, but all entirely unrelated to programming in a team.
Is whiteboarding even a realistic exercise in typical multi-office or remote companies? If I’m presenting to coworkers I’m probably on zoom in my development tools right? That’s not a whiteboard.
- torton 3y ago- writing skills - visualization / explanation skills - speaking to a small group of peers all of these are _highly_ relevant to programming in a team beyond the senior level
- janosdebugs 3y agoVisualization maybe, but writing by hand? Until recently (when I started working on an art-related project) writing by hand alone took more concentration than solving actual tasks, not to mention writing in a fashion so someone can read it. I simply didn't write by hand for the last 15+ years.
- yieldcrv 3y agoafter many unceremonious rejections, the first company that wanted an optional onsite interview hired me, after I went onsite. so, people want to hire me when they meet me in person, and I can give more inputs of rapport. data point of 1.