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Re:Show HN: InterviewBit – Interactive Coach for Tech Interv... by threeseed on Tuesday June 02, 2015 @06:14AM (#9644903)
Seriously this is the best way to hire developers and have interviewed 100+ this way.

Tell them they have a billion dollars and they need to invent a pinning, photo, social, whatever site that can scale to everyone on the planet. Then give them a whiteboard. With one question you can determine how they communicate, their thought process, level of creativity, what they know, what they don't know and because it is open ended their nerves will quickly fade away.

The best developers are creative problem solvers not wrote learners.

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Re:Show HN: InterviewBit – Interactive Coach for Tech Interv... by drawkbox on Tuesday June 02, 2015 @07:30AM (#9645157)
That interview actually sounds fun.

Rather than a test that doesn't mean anything, you go on an adventure of code/design/architecture and you can see how the developer thinks/organizes and the depth of their knowledge and experience.

Hopefully companies start doing this more.

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Re:Show HN: InterviewBit – Interactive Coach for Tech Interv... by collyw on Tuesday June 02, 2015 @10:41AM (#9646145)
Judging by the jobs I have applied for lately, its all going towards an hour and a half hacker rank challenge, just to get the chance to speak with the technical department.
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