Ask HN: What companies have innovative process for interviewing engineers

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The common theme for interviewing engineers is whiteboard coding, which tests only very narrow skillsets of a candidate. Nowadays, mediocre people can still become good "problem solver" if they have enough practice.

So I'm just curious, what companies in bay areas have an interview process that doesn't heavily rely on whiteboard coding?

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Cisco. Most of my "interview" time, I was left alone with a written test. I had to debug a C++ program - with pencil and paper, no computer! - and reverse engineer the hex dump of a network packet. There was one other question that I don't recall. The actual face-to-face interview was quite short and conversational.

Sounds like a normal interview.

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