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Re:Hiring without whiteboards by partycoder on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @12:49PM (#13877505)
I'll ignore the insults and proceed to refute your point.

I am regularly contacted by recruiters from companies where I've interviewed successfully (with offers) and unsuccessfully (no offer).

They do it because it's cost efficient.

The book "Cracking the coding interview" also speaks about this in the early chapters.

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Re:Hiring without whiteboards by logfromblammo on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @02:39PM (#13878603)
No insult was intended. I intended to disparage the hiring processes of the companies I have previously encountered. Your experience appears to have set different expectations than mine. Perhaps it is a regional difference?

I work mainly with companies with a significant physical presence in the US Midwest and near-South. The furthest west I have ever interviewed was in Denver.

A significant number of the companies I have interviewed with lack even the ability to respond to a follow-up message the day after an interview, so never mind contacting someone months later.

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