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I agree and disagree - I agree that whiteboard interviews are usually useless, but I don't agree that it's a sign the people giving the interview aren't the people you'll work with.
A lot of the places I've worked, the technical people brought in to give interviews alongside HR or management have no idea what they should be asking, and so instead of asking the sort of questions they'd have liked to have themselves, they fall back on generic whiteboard or tech test questions because they think that's what everyone else is doing.
It's not necessarily a deal-breaker for me, but it would make me super-probey when they get to the "do you have any questions for us" part of the day.
Ok, agreed. Been there, done that, when someone asked us to create a meaningful coding test. Personally, we didn't go for whiteboard tests, but our idea wasn't that much better ;-)
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I agree and disagree - I agree that whiteboard interviews are usually useless, but I don't agree that it's a sign the people giving the interview aren't the people you'll work with.
A lot of the places I've worked, the technical people brought in to give interviews alongside HR or management have no idea what they should be asking, and so instead of asking the sort of questions they'd have liked to have themselves, they fall back on generic whiteboard or tech test questions because they think that's what everyone else is doing.
It's not necessarily a deal-breaker for me, but it would make me super-probey when they get to the "do you have any questions for us" part of the day.
Ok, agreed. Been there, done that, when someone asked us to create a meaningful coding test. Personally, we didn't go for whiteboard tests, but our idea wasn't that much better ;-)