/hiring-without-whiteboards

Companies that don't do typical CS based whiteboard interviews. The whiteboard is metaphorical.

Hiring without whiteboards

A listing of companies (or teams within companies) that don't do typical, CS based "whiteboard" interviews. Using sites like HackerRank probably fall into that category and won't be accepted. The companies and teams listed here instead use interview techniques and questions that resemble day-to-day work – for example pairing on a real world problem, or a paid/unpaid takehome exercise.

tl;dr

  • Discussing a real world problem with the help of a whiteboard is 👍
  • Solving basic CS questions, technical puzzles, brainteasers (with or without whiteboard) is 👎

Please open a PR to be added.

Format

- [Company or team name within company](https://jobspage) | location | what you do instead

A - C

  • Aiwip | London, UK | Skype/phone interview followed by takehome project or worksample (or whiteboard)
  • AdWyze | Bangalore, India | Short takehome project + (for fulltime) onsite pairing
  • AgileMD | San Francisco, CA | Takehome project
  • Applied | London | Situational judgement tests focusing on real-world soft skills (online then in structured interview)
  • Agoda | Bangkok, Thailand | Take-home project, then a discussion onsite round.
  • Apollo Agriculture | Nairobi, Kenya/Remote | Takehome project or Worksample (or whiteboard)
  • Abstract | San Francisco, CA
  • Adthena | London, UK | Takehome project and discussion on-site
  • Arachnys | London, UK | Take home test, real world pair programming
  • Articulate | 100% remote | Take-home project & pair program on a problem similar to daily work
  • ASI Data Science | London, UK | Project to work at home, general technical questions, pair programming with engineers
  • Auth0 | Bellevue, WA / Argentina / Remote | Series of interviews, go over technical background and past experiences, take-home project
  • B12 | NYC | Take-home exercises and pair-programming with the team.
  • Backbase | Amsterdam, Cardiff, London, Atlanta | Takehome project, interviews
  • Badoo | London, UK | Take-home project, then a discussion onsite round.
  • Basecamp | Chicago / Remote
  • BAE Systems Applied Intellignce | London, UK | Initial interview with experience based technical questions, second interview pair programming on problem similar to daily work
  • BioConnect | Toronto, Canada | Take-home assignment & discussion
  • Blendle | Utrecht, The Netherlands | Take-home project & pair program on a problem similar to daily work
  • blogfoster | Berlin, Germany | Take-home project, discussion on-site
  • Bluesoft | São Paulo, Brazil | Takehome project and an interview to evaluate the candidate's previous experience.
  • Bocoup | Boston, MA / Remote | Pair programming with personal laptop on typical problem seen at work
  • Bouvet | Bergen, Norway | Pair programming with senior engineers
  • brightwheel | San Francisco, CA
  • CASHLINK | Frankfurt, Germany | Skype/phone interview, take-home project
  • Canva | Sydney, Australia | Takehome project, then a pair-programming onsite (or Skype) round.
  • Centroida | Sofia, Bulgaria | Series of interviews, pair programming and take-home projects
  • Chargify | San Antonio, TX / Remote | Take-home project & pair on a problem similar to daily work
  • City of Philadelphia's Office of Open Data & Digital Transformation | Philadelphia, PA | Take-home project
  • Cognitran | Essex, UK / Szczecin, Poland / Detroit, MI | Skype/phone interview followed by pair programming.
  • Credit Kudos | London, UK | Take-home project and pair programming via Skype or on-site.
  • CurrencyTransfer | London, UK & Remote | Take-home project

D - F

  • Dark Sky | Cambridge, MA | Phone interviews and a very short, real paid project
  • DataCentred | Manchester, UK & Remote | Pair programming with team, project to work on at home
  • Deliveroo | London, UK & Remote | Short take-home project and pair programming
  • DG-i | Cologne, Germany | Take-home project and/or discussion on-site about past experiences
  • DockYard | Boston, MA & Remote | A series of interviews, going deep into past experience
  • Draft Fantasy | Tel Aviv, Israel | Talk about past experience and what the developer has actually built as well as pair programming or a programming exercise.
  • Drawbotics | Brussels, Belgium | Take-home project, bootcamp on-site
  • DroneDeploy | San Francisco, CA | Pair program on a problem similar to daily work
  • Echobind | USA, remote | Meet the entire team, share examples of previous work and pair with one team member
  • Elements Interactive | Almere, The Netherlands & Barcelona, Spain | Take-home project & discussion via Skype or on-site
  • Ellucian | Reston, VA, USA | Discussion of real world problems (from resume, if possible)
  • Etix Everywhere | Luxembourg
  • Fitbot | Boulder, CO | Pairing & writing code with the founders for a few hours
  • Fog Creek | NYC, remote
  • Formidable Labs | Seattle, London, Remote | Take-home project, remote pair programming, discussion on-site or remote
  • Fooji | Lexington, KY, remote | Take-home project
  • Founders | Copenhagen, Denmark | Take Home project + Interviews

G - I

  • GitLab | Remote | General technical questions, an issue to work in a 1-hour screen sharing session
  • GoCardless | London, UK | Project to work at home, general technical questions, pair programming with engineers
  • GoDaddy | Sunnyvale, CA | Pair programming with senior engineers
  • grandcentrix | Cologne, Germany | Take-home project, discussion on-site
  • Gusto | CA, CO
  • Happy Team | Remote/Poland | General technical questions, takehome paid exercise with feedback/discussion during implementation
  • Hashrocket | Chicago, IL/Jacksonville Beach, FL | Remote pairing session, paid week pair programming with everyone on the team
  • Heap | San Francisco/Remote | Practical, self-contained onsite project
  • HelloFresh | Berlin, Germany | Take-home project, discussion via Skype or on-site
  • Heptio | Seattle/Remote | Take-home project, discussion on-site
  • HoxHunt | Helsinki, Finland | Take-home project, pair programming on-site
  • ImmobilienScout24 | Berlin, Germany | Take-home project, discussion on-site
  • Impraise | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Take home test, real world pair programming
  • Instacart | San Francisco, CA | Take-home real world project, pair programming on-site
  • I|O | Cape Town, South Africa

J - L

  • JustWatch | Berlin, Germany | Take-Home project, discussion on-site
  • Journal Tech | Los Angeles, CA | Mini take-home project, phone interview, discussion on-site
  • Listium | Melbourne, Australia | Design and code proof of concept features with the team
  • LittleThings | New York, NY | Take home code challenge, Discussion
  • Lyft | San Francisco, CA | Pair programming on-site with your own personal laptop

M - O

  • MakeTime | Lexington, KY | Practical exercise and/or a pairing session on site
  • Media Pop | Singapore | Take-home or unsupervised (onsite) real-world assignment
  • Mercatus | Toronto, Canada | Practical on-site project similar to daily work
  • Moneytree Front-end Web Team | Tokyo, Japan | Pair programming exercise and social gathering with team – Mutually Human Software | MI, OH, WA | Collaborative problem analysis and design exercise, Pairing exercise
  • Mutual Mobile | Austin, TX | Hyderabad, India
  • numer.ai | San Francisco, CA
  • Nedap | Groenlo, the Netherlands/remote | A simple conversation, human to human and a small on-site project
  • Netflix Enterprise Platforms | Los Gatos, CA | Takehome exercise
  • Netguru | Poland/Remote | Takehome exercise & pair programming session
  • Nimbl3 | Bangkok/On-site | Takehome exercise and specific role discussion
  • Niteoweb | Ljubljana, Slovenia | Join us for a week to see if we fit
  • Nomoko,camera | Zurich, Switzerland | Three interrogations
  • NoRedInk | San Francisco, CA | Take-home exercise & pair programming session
  • NoviCap | Barcelona, Spain | Takehome exercise & discussion on-site
  • Opendoor | CA, AZ, NV, TX | Pairing & systems design
  • The Outline | NYC | Take-home exercise
  • Outbrain | NYC, Israel | Take-home exercise & discussion

P - R

  • PassFort | London, UK | Skype interview, and on-site pairing task
  • Pluralsight | UT, CA, MA, FL | Takehome exercise & pair programming session
  • Poki | Amsterdam, the Netherlands | Pair programming on-site w/ two engineers where we focus on teamwork, googling relevant documentation and fixing things together.
  • Popstand | Los Angeles, CA | Build MVPs for startups
  • Pragma Team | Sydney AU | Engineering Consultancy And Delivery - Takehome exercise & discussion
  • PromptWorks | Philadelphia, PA | Take-home project, pair programming, discussion on-site
  • Paessler AG | Nuremberg, Germany | Pairing with different engineers on a real problem
  • Pusher | London, UK | Solve a real-world problem through a design session with our engineers
  • Quiet Light Communications | Rockford, IL, USA | Discussion, work samples and/or small freelance project
  • Rapyuta Robotics | Bengaluru, India / Tokyo, Japan / Zurich, Switzerland | Take-home assignment related to our ongoing projects, series of technical / experience based interviews, candidate presentation
  • Rakuten | Tokyo, Japan | Discuss about relevant experience
  • Reaktor | New York, Amsterdam, Helsinki, Tokyo | Discussion, work samples from previous projects (work or hobby), take-home exercise if needed for further info

S - U

  • Springer Nature (Asia) | Tokyo, Japan | Discussion & Pair programming session
  • Small Improvements | Berlin, Germany
  • Slack | San Francisco, CA
  • Shopify | Canada
  • Simpli.fi | Fort Worth, TX, USA | Takehome code challenge and review
  • Spreedly | Durham, NC | Take-home project related to business
  • Square | San Francisco, CA | Pair programming in a work environment
  • Softwear | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Writing software for the fashion industry – remotely – in an international team.
  • StreetTeam | London, UK | An intentionally short, take home exercise that mirrors real project work and incorporates code review elements
  • SweetIQ | Montreal, Canada | Discussion and general, high level questions
  • Tattoodo | Copenhagen, Denmark | Takehome exercise
  • The Book of Everyone | Barcelona, Spain | Quick interview, meet the team, pairing with developers on your own project
  • Thread | London, UK | Take home test, real world architecture design, real world pair programming.
  • Twistlock | Tel Aviv, Israel | Takehome
  • Untappd | Wilmington, NC, NYC, LA | Review portfolio - What projects have you worked on? + personality assessment, + interview
  • uSwitch | London, UK | Take-home project related to our business area, followed by pairing with developers to extend it

V - X

  • Valuemotive | Helsinki, Finland | Code examples from previous projects (work or hobby) or take-home exercise
  • Varsity Tutors | United States / Online / Remote | Take home assignment, presentation of assignment, live code review with team. Advanced / high-level chat with team based on skillset and role.
  • Visma e-conomic | Copenhagen, Denmark | Take home assignment, assignment presentation and discussion

Y - #

  • Yoyo Wallet | London, UK | Take home code challenge, discussion of the code challenge, and general, high level questions
  • 8th Light | Chicago, London, Los Angeles, New York | Take home code challenge, discussion, pair programming session
  • 500Tech | Tel Aviv, Israel | Pair programming on a laptop in working env

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