But you know? Do you ask a plumber to show you how to connect tubes, before hiring him?
Whiteboard interviews aren't even real life situations.
Whiteboard interviews aren't even real life situations.
If the previous two plumbers I'd hired had turned out not to know how to connect tubes... yeah, I might.
I understand the core idea of your comment, regarding the utility of whiteboard interviews to assess skill. Irrespective, vetting is a part of many skilled jobs. The difference in the analogy and software being whether a centralised institution (Licensing body) or each company does that vetting.
That’s true but it’s also true that a candidate may have had previous jobs at a string of reputable companies, and yet that “vetting” is completely ignored and it’s back to square one.
Not to mention that a degree from a reputable university also doesn’t count. Maybe it gets them past the HR screen but no interviewers seem to believe that a degree let’s you skip the whiteboard.
Felt like a waste to “vet” then, as the signal that they were a good candidate was already there.
On the other hand, getting a CS degree showed the need for additional vetting, in my experience. I saw many students who hadn’t really learned to code, and only a handful of students learned to write industry-level code.