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Whiteboarding?

20180829/DuckDuckGo whiteboarding interview

Oh, this is a really interesting article that covers the history of how we got to “whiteboarding.”

20180829/https://www.forbes.com/sites/vivekravisankar/2015/05/04/the-rise-and-looming-fall-of-the-engineering-whiteboard-interview/#7265ba471c82

Now, this is a really interesting GitHub project that aims to list companies that interview without whiteboarding.

20180829/https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards
20180829/http://they.whiteboarded.me

Now, we know that whiteboarding interviews are bad, but what about behavioral interviews? Well, well, the picture here looks like this: we know they’re “bad,” but because so many people practice it we make up training materials to get good at it anyways.

20180829/DuckDuckGo behavioral interviews

But now, reading about behavioral interviews, the whiteboarding was done because interviewers thought they could outdue the shortcomings of the behavioral interview.

20180829/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_interview#Behavioral_questions
20180829/https://www.forbes.com/sites/lizryan/2014/03/04/why-i-hate-behavioral-interviewing/