This is inspired by Hiring-without-whiteboards.

TL;DR

Discussing a real world problem (with or without whiteboard) is 👍
Solving CS trivia, technical puzzles, riddles, brainteasers (with or without whiteboard) is 👎

Hiring without whiteboards 👍

Yep, I hate typical, Computer-Science based (like sort, etc) whiteboard interviews too.

I do believe the problem can be solved by Google search is not a big problem.

The problems like How to implement this feature like this site is not a big issue too as it always has solutions in GitHub if it’s just a normal feature.

The fake interviews:

• Boss: What’s the output with code ['1', '2','3'].map(parseInt)?
• Employee: Ummm… Excuses Me? Can I borrow your computer and run this code on your Chrome? I will get the answer immediately.
• Boss: No, you can not use the computer!
• Employee: OK, The answer is [1, 2, 3]?
• Boss: No.
• Employee: What? The answer is [1, NaN, NaN]?! What’s happening just now and WHYYYYY? Let me Google it!
• Boss: Okay…
• Employee: Run ['1', '2','3'].map(function() { console.log(arguments) }) & Read the parseInt manual. Yeah! Got it!
• Boss: No, no, no. The most important thing is you don’t understand the function map & parseInt.
• Employee: Sorry? But, we never use map & parseInt like this. I will code like this ['1', '2', '3'].map(n => parseInt(n)).
• Boss: Sorry, you are rejected.

Funny!

But… Wait! What are we going to do in interviews?

Discussing the employee’s real world project may be the best choice.

• What problems have you met?
• How to solve those issues?
• Do you have any ideas to improve our company’s products?

Or you can just list projects’ problems you are facing. Like:

• How to access multiple systems just with one account?
• How to specify a user to request limited API at API Level (not just UI Level)?

Hiring with whiteboards 👎

• Interview-answers is an article written by me for whiteboards interview.
• Those questions are not so good.