poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards
⭐️ Companies that don't have a broken hiring process
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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
The project lists 421 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #20 in the weekly ranking the week of Jul 12, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a curated list of companies that avoid traditional whiteboard and CS trivia interviews in favor of practical, real-world hiring assessments.
- Enables candidates and employers to find and promote more effective, realistic, and fair technical interview processes that reflect actual job tasks.
- Use for job seekers wanting to target companies with modern, practical interview methods that emphasize real-world problem solving over trivia.
- Use for hiring managers seeking to improve their technical interview process by adopting better, work-relevant assessment techniques.
- Use for researchers or advocates studying and promoting fairer, less stressful, and more predictive technical hiring practices in the tech industry.
Should you depend on it?
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License
MIT
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
Watch-outs
- No GitHub releases; pin a commit or tag instead of a release.
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From the README
A list of companies (or teams) that don't do "whiteboard" interviews. "Whiteboards" is used as a metaphor, and is a symbol for the kinds of CS trivia questions that are associated with bad interview practices. Whiteboards are not bad – CS trivia questions are. Using sites like HackerRank/LeetCode probably fall into a similar category.
The companies and teams listed here use interview techniques and questions that resemble day-to-day work. For example, pairing on a real world problem or a paid/unpaid take home exercise. Read (and contribute to) our recommendations for ways to conduct better interviews.
Please open a PR to be added.
If you've been through an interview with one of these companies recently, and your experience suggests otherwise from their description, please open a PR to remove them from this list.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+1,782 stars over 88 days across 40 snapshot days; best day +71 on Aug 27.
Forks
4.0K+80
Open issues
13+3
Compared with peers in Education
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| rohitg00/ai-engineering-from-scratch | 78.3K | +1.6K | 75 | 1 day ago |
| mnfst/awesome-free-llm-apis | 12.8K | +754 | 75 | — |
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| github/awesome-copilot | 41.0K | +251 | 75 | — |
| ripienaar/free-for-dev | 141.8K | — | 45 | — |
| poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards | 53.1K | — | 45 | — |
| Category median | 46.9K | +597 | 75 | — |
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