/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

  • AgileMD | San Francisco, CA | Takehome project
  • Apollo Agriculture | Nairobi, Kenya/Remote | Takehome project or Worksample (or whiteboard)
  • Abstract | San Francisco, CA
  • Basecamp | Chicago / Remote
  • Blendle | Utrecht, The Netherlands | Take-home project & pair program on a problem similar to daily work
  • brightwheel | San Francisco, CA
  • Cognitran | Essex, UK / Szczecin, Poland / Detroit, MI | Skype/phone interview followed by pair programming.

D - F

  • DataCentred | Manchester, UK & Remote | Pair programming with team, project to work on at home
  • DockYard | Boston, MA & Remote | A series of interviews, going deep into past experience
  • Drawbotics | Brussels, Belgium | Take-home project, bootcamp on-site
  • DroneDeploy | San Francisco, CA | Pair program on a problem similar to daily work
  • Elements Interactive | Almere, The Netherlands & Barcelona, Spain | Take-home project & discussion via Skype or on-site
  • Etix Everywhere | Luxembourg
  • Fitbot | Boulder, CO | Pairing & writing code with the founders for a few hours
  • Fog Creek | NYC, remote

G - I

  • GoCardless | London, UK | Project to work at home, general technical questions, pair programming with engineers
  • GoDaddy | Sunnyvale, CA | Pair programming with senior engineers
  • Gusto | CA, CO
  • 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
  • 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
  • Listium | Melbourne, Australia | Design and code proof of concept features with the team

M - O

  • numer.ai | San Francisco, CA
  • Netflix Enterprise Platforms | Los Gatos, CA | Takehome exercise
  • Netguru | Poland/Remote | Takehome exercise & pair programming session
  • Niteoweb | Ljubljana, Slovenia | Join us for a week to see if we fit
  • 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

P - R

  • 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
  • Paessler AG | Nuremberg, Germany | Pairing with different engineers on a real problem

S - U

  • Springer Nature (Asia) | Tokyo, Japan | Discussion & Pair programming session
  • Small Improvements | Berlin, Germany
  • Slack | San Francisco, CA
  • Shopify | Canada
  • Softwear | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Writing software for the fashion industry – remotely – in an international team.
  • Tattoodo | Copenhagen, Denmark | Takehome exercise
  • Thread | London, UK | Take home test, real world architecture design, real world pair programming.
  • Twistlock | Tel Aviv, Israel | Takehome
  • uSwitch | London, UK | Take-home project related to our business area, followed by pairing with developers to extend it

V - X

  • Visma e-conomic | Copenhagen, Denmark | Take home assignment, assignment presentation and discussion

Y - #

  • replace me