Engineering whiteboard interviews: yay or nay?

Re:Engineering whiteboard interviews: yay or nay? by seanmcdirmid on Thursday August 09, 2018 @05:09PM (#17728530)

Then test that. Having someone code on a whiteboard, even if they are explaining what they are doing while they go along, is simply not the same thing as being good at using on the fly visual aides while communicating. In any case, that isn’t coding either.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Engineering whiteboard interviews: yay or nay? by nerpderp83 on Friday August 10, 2018 @12:02AM (#17730598)

You have 40 minutes to make a slide deck that explains bloomfilters and 5 minutes to present in front of the director of engineering.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Engineering whiteboard interviews: yay or nay? by seanmcdirmid on Friday August 10, 2018 @01:03AM (#17730802)

That is the same as saying who can code the fastest rather than who does the best job. But at the PhD level there will be a presentation given regardless.

[ Parent | on HN ]