Re:Hiring without whiteboards
by mikulas_florek on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @06:59AM
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Everything depends on the project (e.g. programming games is different than making web apps), but:
> When was the last time you can honestly say you used a whiteboard to solve a programming problem
Every time there is some interesting hard problem which I want to share with the team. We used whiteboards almost daily.
> Googling and ending at a StackOverflow question with a great answer
I google like 5% of stuff I do, because:
* a lot of time is spent on debugging and you just can't google why your program crashes on in file X on line Y
* a lot of stuff is too easy and there is no need for me to google it
* architecture - you usually can't google "how do I architect system X"
> When was the last time you can honestly say you used a whiteboard to solve a programming problem
Every time there is some interesting hard problem which I want to share with the team. We used whiteboards almost daily.
> Googling and ending at a StackOverflow question with a great answer
I google like 5% of stuff I do, because:
* a lot of time is spent on debugging and you just can't google why your program crashes on in file X on line Y * a lot of stuff is too easy and there is no need for me to google it * architecture - you usually can't google "how do I architect system X"