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, riddles, brainteasers (with or without whiteboard) is 👎

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Format

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

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A - C

Aiwip | London, UK | Skype/phone interview followed by takehome project or worksample (or whiteboard)
Accredible | Cambridge, UK / San Francisco, CA / Remote | Take home project, then a pair-programming and discussion onsite / Skype round.
AdWyze | Bangalore, India | Short takehome project + (for fulltime) onsite pairing
AgileMD | San Francisco, CA | Takehome project
Alluvium | Brooklyn, NY | Take-home assignment, on-site review dovetailing into collaborative project planning for extension.
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
Affinity | San Francisco, CA | Implementation of a children's game, then take-home project OR real-world design questions
Algolia | Paris, France / San Francisco, CA | Takehome project & Onsite discussions and presentation
AlphaSights | London / New York / Remote | Initial interview, pair programming then final round with general technical questions
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
Avant | Chicago, IL | Pair programming interviews.
Auth0 | Bellevue, WA / Argentina / Remote | Series of interviews, go over technical background and past experiences, take-home project
Automattic | anywhere in the world | short take-home real-world task, then a few weeks-long real-world, part-time, and paid project on production code
Avocarrot | Athens, Greece | on-site real world problem discussion and pair programming
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.
Balabit | Budapest, Hungary | Take-home project (medium size, with restrictions, e.g. only stdlib may be used), then discussion on-site
Basecamp | Chicago / Remote
BAE Systems Applied Intelligence | London, UK | Initial interview with experience based technical questions, second interview pair programming on problem similar to daily work
Bemind Interactive | Biella / Latina / Italy / Remote | Series of interviews, discussion about technical background and past experiences, take-home project & pair programming
Bendyworks | Madison, WI | Interviews and pair programming on personal projects
Betterment | New York, NY | Phone interview followed by on-site pair programming to simulate a Betterment feature build.
Big Nerd Ranch | Atlanta, GA & Remote | Interviews and pair programming on an internal project or problem.
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 | Take home exercise, and systems design.
Bustle | New York City, Ny / Remote | Half day pair programming on a task for production or one of our Open Source projects. We'll also buy you lunch with the team.
ByBox | UK Remote | Phone interview followed by interview with devs (ideally in person but sometimes Skype) covering technical experience and coding exercise with real code.
Canon Innovation Lab | Waterloo, ON, Canada | Series of interviews, go over technical background and past experiences, take-home project
Casetext | San Francisco, CA | Submit code sample for review/discussion, contract for one full day (paid)
CASHLINK | Frankfurt, Germany | Skype/phone interview, take-home project
Causeway | United Kingdom, India | Skype or Telephonic discussion on approaches and experience in regards to solve projects related work, then face to face round to write small solutions to common problems in related field.
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
Chatgrape Web Frontend Team | Vienna, Austria or Remote | Github or code samples -> Pair programming -> Skype/phone interview
Checkout 51 | Toronto, Canada | Phone conversation [15-20 minutes] followed by on-site pair programming and discussion focused on understanding decisions made during on-site work
CircleCI | San Francisco, CA / Remote | Take-home project and discussion, followed by on-site interview that includes pair programming on actual CircleCI bugs/feature requests.
City of Boston's Analytics Team | Boston, MA | Take-home project and in-person or phone/Skype interviews
City of Philadelphia's Office of Open Data & Digital Transformation | Philadelphia, PA | Take-home project
Civis Analytics | Chicago, IL | Take-home project and discussion via Skype, followed by pair programming exercise
Clockwork Consulting | Copenhagen, Denmark | Interviews, discussion of technical background and experiences.
Cloudistics | Reston, VA | Multiple interviews, discussion of technical background and experiences.
Clubhouse | New York, NY & Remote | Phone interview, followed by onsite discussions and pair programming
Cognitect, Inc. | Distributed! | Phone interview followed by pair programming.
Cognitran | Essex, UK / Szczecin, Poland / Detroit, MI | Skype/phone interview followed by pair programming.
Contactlab | Milan, Italy | Recruiter interview, tech interview (technical background and experiences), both on-site.
Cognitive Logic | Basingstoke, UK | On-site unsupervised exercise & discussion.
Coorp Academy | Paris, France | Technical interview as an open discussion
Credit Kudos | London, UK | Take-home project and pair programming via Skype or on-site.
Crowdstrike | US (Multiple), UK (London), Remote | [UI Team] Multiple interviews onsite or remote as appropriate followed by small take-home project.
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
Def Method | NYC, NY | Take home test, pair programming with dev on test and client work, receive offer same day as pairing interview
Deliveroo | London, UK & Remote | Short take-home project and pair programming
Detroit Labs | Detroit, MI | Our technical interview starts with a take-home assignment that we will look at during the interview. You'll walk us though your thought process, add functionality if applicable to the interview, and talk about your experience. We believe that showing us your work in a practical setting is more telling of your abilities and what you will bring to the table, than writing code on a whiteboard.
DG-i | Cologne, Germany | Take-home project and/or discussion on-site about past experiences
DICE | Stockholm, Sweden | Take-home project and code review at the on-site
DockYard | Boston, MA & Remote | A series of interviews, going deep into past experience
door2door | Berlin, Germany | Take home challenge + on-site interview + trial day
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
dubizzle | Dubai, UAE | Take home assignment, general technical questions, pair programming with engineers or tech leads
Easy Taxi | São Paulo, Brazil | Take-home project, interview to evaluate the candidate's previous experience.
Echobind | USA, remote | Meet the entire team, share examples of previous work and pair with one team member
Eidu | Berlin, Germany | Take-home project, discussion of results with team, and test days with pair programming
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)
Enki | London, UK | Skype/phone interview followed by takehome project
Emarsys | Budapest, Hungary | Take-home project (small, 1-2 days to solve), then discussion on-site
Endava | Multiple locations | On-site discussion about previous experience and technical questions about the target technologies.
Etix Everywhere | Luxembourg
FATMAP | London, Berlin, Vilnius | Skype discussion, Take-home project, Face to face
FINE | Portland, OR | Small take-home challenge + follow-up discussion
Fitbot | Boulder, CO | Pairing & writing code with the founders for a few hours
Fog Creek | NYC, remote
Food52 | NYC, remote | Take-home project, discussion on-site or remote, interviews with both technical and non-technical staff
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
fournova | Remote | Take-home project, discussion via video call
FreeAgent | Edinburgh, UK | Take-home project, pair programming, discussion and interviews
Funda | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Take Home test + Discussion On-Site/Remote

G - I

GitLab | Remote | General technical questions, an issue to work in a 1-hour screen sharing session
GitPrime | Colorado, Remote-First | small short term real-world project, paid project on production code
GoCardless | London, UK | Project to work at home, general technical questions, pair programming with engineers
GoDaddy | Sunnyvale, CA | Pair programming with senior engineers
Graphcool | Berlin, Germany | On-site pair programming of a small, isolated real world task
Graphistry | Oakland/SF, Remote | Engineering, culture, and product discussions, and for junior developers, choice of take home or code review.
Gramercy Tech | New York, NY | Pair programming & discussion on-site
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
Indellient | Oakville, Canada | Series of interviews both technical and non-technical
inKind Capital | Boulder, CO | Discussing real-world problems, pair programming, dinner & drinks with the team
Instacart | San Francisco, CA | Take-home real world project, pair programming on-site
Intercom | San Francisco, Chicago, Dublin | Real-world technical design and problem discussion, pair programming on-site
Interset | Ottawa, Canada | Discussion of technical background and past experience. Relevant take-home project for junior developers
I|O | Cape Town, South Africa

J - L

Jamasoftware | Portland, OR | Initial phone screen with hiring manager. In person pairing on project similar to day-to-day work with a separate cultural interview
JustWatch | Berlin, Germany | Take-Home project, discussion on-site
Journal Tech | Los Angeles, CA | Mini take-home project, phone interview, discussion on-site
Journalism++ | Berlin, Germany | Apply through a relevant online challenge to show your technical skills and your capacity to investigate
Kindred Group, Native Apps Team | Stockholm SE, London UK | On-site/Skype programming task, Interview
Koddi Inc. | Fort Worth, TX | Phone Interview(s), take-home project, on-site interview
Landing.jobs | Lisbon, Portugal | Interviews (in-person or remote), Take home coding project
Lanetix | San Francisco, CA | Our Hiring Process
Librato | SF, Boston, Austin, Vancouver CA, Krakow PL | Take home coding project, conversational technical interviews on-site
Lydia | Paris, FR | 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
Locaweb | São Paulo, Brazil | Skype interview, take-home project and discussion on-site
Lyft | San Francisco, CA | Pair programming on-site with your own personal laptop
Lyoness Austria GmbH | Graz, Austria | Take-Home project, discussion on-site

M - O

MakeTime | Lexington, KY | Practical exercise and/or a pairing session on site
Mango Solutions | London (UK), Chippenham (UK) | Initial phone interview, followed by on-site interview with take-home assignment
Mapbox | SF, DC, Ayacucho, Bangalore, Berlin, Remote | Conversational interviews, paid onsite project with team.
Maxwell Health | Boston, MA | Take-home exercise or pairing session with team. Then conversational meetings with members of the team.
Media Pop | Singapore | Take-home or unsupervised (onsite) real-world assignment
Mercatus | Toronto, Canada | Practical on-site project similar to daily work
MokaHR | Beijing, China | Take home project/challenge, then on-site programming session taken from problems we encounter at 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 of Omaha | Omaha, NE, USA | Panel Style Interviews analyzing problem solving, ability to adapt well to change, and interpersonal communication skills.
Mutual Mobile | Austin, TX | Hyderabad, India
NodeSource | Remote First | A person-to–person walk through of a past project of yours
numer.ai | San Francisco, CA
Nedap | Groenlo, the Netherlands/remote | A simple conversation, human to human and a small on-site project
The Nerdery | Minneapolis MN, Chicago IL, Phoenix AZ, Kansas City KS | Take-home exercise
Netflix Enterprise Platforms | Los Gatos, CA | Takehome exercise
Netguru | Poland/Remote | Takehome exercise & pair programming session
Netlify | San Francisco, CA | Paid takehome project and online/onsite discussion
New Relic | San Francisco, CA | Takehome exercise &/ or pair programming session depending on the team
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
Nozbe | Everywhere (Remote) | Take-home exercise & interview with the team
npm, Inc | Oakland, CA/remote | No technical challenges. Just interview conversations.
numberly | Paris, France | Series of interviews, that go over technical background, past experiences and cultural knowledge
Omada Health | San Francisco, CA | Take home exercise and/or pair programming session.
Ontame.io | Copenhagen, Denmark | Take home exercise and specific role discussion
Opbeat | Copenhagen, Denmark | Pairing on a real-world problem
Opendoor | CA, AZ, NV, TX | Pairing & systems design
Ostmodern | London, UK | Take-home exercise & discussion on-site
Outlandish | London, UK | Take-home exercise, real-world pair programming session, friendly chat with team
The Outline | NYC | Take-home exercise
Outbrain | NYC, Israel | Take-home exercise & discussion
Outlook iOS & Android | San Francisco / New York | Take-home project & online / onsite discussion

P - R

Pagar.me | São Paulo, BR | Skype interview, on-site pairing task and-or real world problem solving process / presentation
PassFort | London, UK | Skype interview, and on-site pairing task
PayByPhone | Vancouver, BC, CA | Remote programming interview, on-site "meet the team"
PeerStreet | Los Angeles, CA | Phone, take home project & on-site to meet the team
Pivotal Labs | HQ: San Francisco, International | Remote Pairing, and full day on-site pairing
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
PremiumBeat | Montreal, Canada | Discussion and general, high level questions
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
Pygmalios | Bratislava, Slovakia | Take-home project related to business and discussion 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
Rayfeed | Vancouver, Warsaw | Video-call interview followed by a take-home exercise
Reaktor | New York, Amsterdam, Helsinki, Tokyo | Discussion, work samples from previous projects (work or hobby), take-home exercise if needed for further info
Revlv | Manila, Philippines | Discussion about developer skills, previous projects and experiences.
ReSpark | London, UK | Phone conversation followed by on-site interview w/ task relevant to daily role.
Rizk.com | Ta' Xbiex, Malta | Take-home assignment, discussion w/ developers
RubyGarage | Dnipro, UA | Take-home project, code review and discussion on-site

S - U

Sahaj Software Solutions | Bangalore & Chennai (India), San Jose (USA) | Take home code + Pairing + Discussion
Setapp Sp. z o.o. | Poznan, Poland | Online/face-to-face discussion with developers about everyday programming dilemmas & reviewing your own code
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
Sixt4.io | Toronto, On, Canada | Take-home assignment, followed up by a face to face code walk through
Social Tables | Washington D.C. | Chat about skills and past experiences + bring in a code sample from previous work or side project to discuss
Sogilis | Grenoble, France | Discussion about interests, practices, and motivation. Presentation/code review/pair programming on a personal or professional project.
SpronQ | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Takehome coding challenge
Spreedly | Durham, NC | Take-home project related to business
Srijan Technologies | Delhi, India | General high level questions/discussion followed by Pair programming OR take-home coding challenge
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
store2be | Berlin, Germany | Skype/on-site interview, take-home project
SweetIQ | Montreal, Canada | Discussion and general, high level questions
SysGarage | Buenos Aires, Argentina | Take-home project and real world pair programming
Tanooki Labs | New York, NY | Paid half-day take home project with followup review and discussion
Tattoodo | Copenhagen, Denmark | Takehome exercise
Telus Digital | Toronto, Canada | Discuss knowledge and interest, explore previous work, pair with developers when possible, alternatively take home project.
Ten Thousand Coffees | Toronto, Canada | Take home project, then explain how you solved the project
The Book of Everyone | Barcelona, Spain | Quick interview, meet the team, pairing with developers on your own project
ThoughtWorks | Multiple locations in every continent | Interviews with ThoughtWorkers of diverse backgrounds and roles; take home assignment followed by in person pairing session.
Thread | London, UK | Take home test, real world architecture design, real world pair programming.
Tilde | Portland, OR | Pair programming sessions with each member of the team, working on problems similar to daily work.
Toucan Toco | Paris, France | Pair-programming and TDD
Trustpilot | Copenhagen, Denmark | Take-home project, code review and discussion on-site
Twistlock | Tel Aviv, Israel | Takehome
uBiome | San Francisco, CA / Santiago, Chile | High level screening over the phone or on-site, take home project, code review and discussion
Unbounce | Vancouver, BC | Phone screen, take-home project, project discussion, technical interview
Untappd | Wilmington, NC, NYC, LA | Review portfolio - What projects have you worked on? + personality assessment, + interview
Unearth | Seattle, WA | Take home project, team-fit interviews, technical discussion
Updater | New York, NY | Begin-at-home assignment highly relevant to role, presented and discussed during on-site.
Uprise | Uppsala, Sweden | Take-home assignment, code review and discussion on-site
UserTesting | Atlanta, GA; San Francisco/Mountain View, CA | Initial interview, pair programming, and offer
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.
Vayu Technology | Sydney & Kathmandu | Short interview, general programming questions and short take home challenge.
Venminder, Inc. | Elizabethtown/Louisville, KY, USA | Initial phone screen to explain position. If candidate interested they get a take home assignment followed by a non-scripted in-person interview with team members to judge personality fit.
Visma e-conomic | Copenhagen, Denmark | Take home assignment, assignment presentation and discussion
Wealthsimple | Toronto, Canada | Pair programming on a problem similar to daily work, discussion of system design
Webantic | Manchester, UK | Basic TNA self-assessment and real-world problem-solving
Webflow | San Francisco & Remote | Short take-home challenge, followed by a paid 3-5 day freelance contract project
Wildbit | Philadelphia & Remote | Take-home project followed by interviews.
Wimdu | Berlin, Germany | Take-home project, then a pair-programming and discussion onsite/remote.
X-Team | 100% Remote | A short, fun Node.js challenge, followed by a series of culture-based interview questions, followed by a creative mock project with tons of freedom on how to approach, and follow-up questions about the approach they chose to discuss the tradeoffs. Usually a 10-30 day paid training is rewarded to top candidates to prep them for remote communication skills needed to join a team.

Y - #

Yodas | Binyamina, Israel | Coding tasks over github repository
Yoyo Wallet | London, UK | Take home code challenge, discussion of the code challenge, and general, high level questions
1000mercis group | Paris, France | Series of interviews, that go over technical background, past experiences and cultural knowledge
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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