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Re:Hiring Without Whiteboards by kipply on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @08:13PM (#23982098)
Recurse Center has a pretty nice model where they give you a part of a program (small) to bring ahead of time (or you can pick any program you've written) and the interview is going through the code and adding a feature or two.

That kind of interview mitigates the amount of trivia and preparation-gaming while also ensuring that the applicant can solve problems as a team and is a competent programmer. It is cheatable in that one can memorize implementations of some features, though it seems somewhat difficult and not more cheatable than just memorizing a bunch of CS trivia.

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Re:Hiring Without Whiteboards by deliveryboyman on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @09:00PM (#23982399)
I'm not too familiar with them, but why does Recurse Center need to interview people for technical positions?
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Re:Hiring Without Whiteboards by pyb on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @05:01AM (#23984741)
The Recurse Center is a retreat that you attend with other like-minded programmers. I recommend it if you are interested deepening your experience as a programmer, by working on personal projects as part of a helpful community. There is a selection process as mentioned above, but it isn't onerous.
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