>>> Whiteboard tests are not a good way to evaluate people >> How do you make sure you don't hire these people? > I simple whiteboard test such as reversing a

>>> Whiteboard tests are not a good way to evaluate people >> How do you make sure you don't hire these people? > I simple whiteboard test such as reversing a list will do the trick! Agreed. I did a lot of hiring interviews of experienced embedded C programmers. A few of the applicants could not read two bytes from memory and combine them into a 16-bit integer, no matter how much handholding they got. But they had good resumes and interviewed well other than that. So some kind of check of their actual technical skills is valuable. We spent a much larger portion of the interview having them explain things like "how would you implement a firmware upgrade architecture where the power can be lost at any time during the upgrade?"