Show HN: Whiteboardfree – Developer Jobs at Companies That Don't Whiteboard
I&#x27;ve been using whiteboards for 2 decades during the interview process and they work great, if you ask the right questions. I&#x27;ve built great engineering teams at companies like Orbtiz and whiteboards were one of our best tools.<p>The reason they are important is that they are part of every engineers day-to-day work. We use them to collaborate and design and understand.<p>Therefore, if a candidate can&#x27;t whiteboard a design, solution, architecture, etc. in a manner that other engineers can understand it, they are going to struggle.<p>That being said, the way Google and other companies use whiteboards is an epic fail. Asking someone to code on a whiteboard is stupid. Asking them to solve algorithm puzzlers on a whiteboard is lame. This isn&#x27;t how we use whiteboards every day so why should a candidate be expected to use them this way during an interview.