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⭐️ Companies that don't have a broken hiring process

92 mentions on Hacker News by 79 people: 13 stories, 79 comments · first 2017-03-15 · latest 2025-09-13

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  1. …with a tech screen until you know that. These are good places to start: https://www.keyvalues.com/ https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards
  2. …these programming tests designed to hopelessly find 𝔶𝔢 𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔦𝔢𝔫𝔱 𝔩𝔢𝔤𝔢𝔫𝔡 𝔬𝔣 𝔶𝔢 յօ𝔵 𝔡𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔩𝔬𝔭𝔢𝔯. [0] - https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards
  3. Not exactly that, but you might like to peruse https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards Reader beware, of course, I know at least one company on there shouldn't be.
    comment by Jach · 2019-08-18 · in Tech Interview Handbook
  4. Can you please contribute the names of these companies to https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards You'd make me and a lot other people a big big favor. Thanks a mil.
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    Anyone else thinks that Whiteboard interview is just covered ageism?
    story by zerogvt · 2019-08-15 · 140 comments
  6. That's actually good as long as there are companies out there that get it right https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards Avoid the type of corporations that sleepwalk into that type of interviewing out of boredom or lack of…
  7. >find companies that interview with a different approach, https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards
  8. would love to have an 'interview' section. This has some info. https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards
  9. …though. There are plenty of companies that don't do whiteboard problems or ask DP. Here's a few: https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards > We could ask people to, IDK, write code that solves actual problems It's pretty hard to…
  10. …apt-get install libfunction-parameters-perl libterm-readline-gnu-perl libpadwalker-perl git clone https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards git clone https://github.com/pflanze/functional-perl…
  11. ▲ 369
    A listing of companies that don't do whiteboard job interviews
    story by ohjeez · 2019-03-02 · 232 comments
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    Resources for finding jobs that look at portfolio/does takehome
    story by biscottigelato · 2018-12-09 · 0 comments
  13. This might be helpful: https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards
  14. Here is a repository of companies that don't force you into solving fizz buzz problems: https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards
  15. …or you can bypass the puzzle, or you can sell your ability to work independently, etc.. See https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards and https://codewithoutrules.com/2018/07/29/getting-a-job-withou...
  16. …wants to work for a company that DOES NOT do white-boarding during interviews, here's a solid list: https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards
    comment by simpixelated · 2018-08-09 · in Engineering whiteboard interviews: yay or nay?
  17. …message I referred to is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17589684 (and the link to the list is https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards )
  18. Not all places hire using these types of interview techniques: https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards Don't give up so soon. You can do this.
  19. Lots of companies don't do stupid programming puzzles. Here's a list: https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards Don't listen to people telling you that you shouldn't be a programmer. Doing these sort of puzzles has very little…
  20. …Big Four thing, but down here in London I am yet to encounter a company that does whiteboarding. https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards
  21. …ago about this. I am wondering whether you have considered companies that don't white board.[1] [1] https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards
  22. Free alternative: https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards
  23. …Code Interview/Hacker Rank formula. This is an interesting list that has been posted here before: - https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards But if you want to work somewhere firmly in the whiteboard club - do regular practice…
    comment by SmirkingRevenge · 2018-05-03 · in Over 30? Too Old for Tech Jobs in China
  24. …Companies interested getting placed on it should raise PRs on https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards
  25. This is a useful list https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards
  26. https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards
    comment by jogjayr · 2017-10-14 · in Questions to ask in interviews
  27. …is and start and only support companies that skip these kinds of interviews. Like these fine people https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards But the snarky comments are beyond annoying.
  28. …regular software engineer job. Here's a list of some - never used it but was on here a while back: https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards
  29. There's this list: https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards
    comment by charlieegan3 · 2017-09-06 · in Why HackerRank and other coding tests are ageist
  30. Here's a list of companies that don't do this https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards I hope it's the beginning of an industry wide trend away from these types of interviews.
  31. https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards/blob/ma...
  32. https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards/blob/ma... Hiring Without Whiteboards
  33. If whiteboarding is not for you, this list was on HN few weeks back. https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards CircleCI is in there too.
    comment by umbs · 2017-06-16 · in How to Get Hired at CircleCI
  34. Check out some of the companies here. They hire based on trial projects (mostly unpaid). https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards
    comment by vellum · 2017-05-28 · in Too many prisons make people worse
  35. …not have this interview process. For example, this list of companies was in a HN story a while ago: https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards The trend is growing and it's a good change for the industry.
  36. …a broken process like this. Next time I look for a new job, I'm going to start with this list: https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards and give priority to companies that don't have this type of process. I hope more companies…
    comment by bit_logic · 2017-04-24 · in Google: My interview experience
  37. …efficient means of increasing shareholder value. Can't see the forest for the B-trees, if you will. https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards has a list of companies who don't participate in this particular flavor of shenanigans.
    comment by seanp2k2 · 2017-04-15 · in A Competitive Programmer's Handbook
  38. also https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards
  39. …ask these types of questions, but at least they wont ask you to answer them on a whiteboard [0] https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards related HN discussion thread[1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13874026
  40. Sounds like you need to pick companies better or brush up on these questions. https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards
    comment by madamelic · 2017-03-21 · in Ask HN: Tech interviews gone crazy
  41. https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards
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    Hiring without whiteboards
    story by sugarpirate · 2017-03-15 · 363 comments