Do you think the current programmer interview process is bizarre and ineffective? Want to find a better way to hire a team of happy, collaborative developers that do great things together? Then stop doing whiteboard interviews!!Whiteboard reviews what’s wrong with traditional tech interviews, asks questions about what we are really looking for when we hire (challenging current thinking), and goes into details about a new approach for programmer interviews.You’ll get all you need to change your interview process – includes details to screen candidatesThe best way to do a phone screenHow to best determine how a developer will perform as part of your dev teamHow to run the on-site loopHow to scale the processEdition 3 talks about COVID and fully remote interviews (and how the process adapts to that)
Interesting book, which details the problems with traditional whiteboard interviews for software developers. I think the author is correct about the problems with this approach, but I'm not sure his approach is as dramatic an improvement as he seems to believe it is.
Also interesting that he wrote this as a free ebook. It's a short, quick read, that could have been a long blog post instead. I'd be interested whether or not releasing this has been a good way to get his message out and / or promote his company.