Tech hiring has always been broken, here's how I survived it for decades

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whiteboarding is not evil. We stretched its use beyond limits during tech interviews. If you are a competent engineer and given a problem and whiteboard you should be able to paint a decent picture of your skills and capabilities. The problem is that many interviewers are too inexperienced to judge other candidates and mistake software engineering to just coding.

I think that the point whiteboarding is to prove that somebody can study and communicate with a whiteboard. Everybody knows that it's coming so it shouldn't be a surprise which means that you can study for it. reviewing this process is not difficult.

I tend to believe that it's not very representative of somebody's coding skills but it can be very representative of somebody's ability to adapt to different communication platforms.

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