I agree we need an alternative to resume-based hiring, and the hiring process in general. For example, I don't do well in whiteboard interviews, which is odd b

I agree we need an alternative to resume-based hiring, and the hiring process in general. For example, I don't do well in whiteboard interviews, which is odd because I normally don't have a public speaking issue. It feels like there's some muscle memory attached to coding that isn't well replicated with poor handwriting in a room full of people. Whiteboard lines of code are simply not the manner in which developers work once hired. That is the reason for the disconnect between speaking well about projects (easy to verbally explain and sketch) and the programming portion (bizarre.) Right the industry is doing the equivalent of interviewing lawyers by asking them to write a legal brief on a white board. We're testing the wrong thing: a proxy for the work, when we we could easily test the work itself. I much prefer work sample tests rather than whiteboard Q/A as it better replicates the actual job. Give me a few hours with problems I would actually face on the job, my dev environment, internet access, and a set of problems that truly reflect the work, and I find it much more natural. Is it too much to ask that an interview measure skills the job actually requires, in an environment that emulates the work?