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Re:Tell HN: Unpaid home assignments are not ok by bambax on Friday August 12, 2022 @09:15AM (#32438102)
It doesn't have to be perfect, it just needs to be better than the tech part of the current interview system. I very much doubt that whiteboard interviews can accurately predict what people bring to a team; they're not even designed to assess that.

This system wouldn't replace the personality interviews, etc., but only measure technical abilities.

Re:Tell HN: Unpaid home assignments are not ok by macksd on Friday August 12, 2022 @03:29PM (#32442935)
Is there much actual whiteboarding going on in tech interviews right now? It's been years since I did anything but remote coding interviews (where you have a fairly realistic editor and REPL environment) and remote behavioral interviews. I liked doing whiteboards where someone would walk us through a former project and architectural decisions, etc. with diagrams. I kinda miss that, actually. But I haven't seen literal whiteboard coding since long before COVID even.