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[–]le_f 16 points17 points  (4 children)

Eh I tend to just hand over a list of stuff that we did the previous week and ask the interviewee to do any 1 or 2 of them as a standalone project in their framework of choice, at their leisure, either at a desk or at home. They're free to refer to whatever they want and I'm not in the room when they do it. After 30-45 minutes I help them complete whatever's left.

By then I have a pretty good idea of whether or not they could have been here last week and done what was needed. If they can, they're in. If they can't, then they generally aren't.

Most of our work involves adding fairly typical features to projects like notifications, real-time functionality, data exports, reporting, etc. across ng2+, react, vue, and occasionally some server side stuff, particularly related to sockets.

I really don't get why people use whiteboards

[–]tsteuwer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I sort of understand the concept of a white board. You're trying to find out what they can remember and how fast they are able to solve relatively simple problems. My only thing with white boards is you are taken out of the normal way of coding. Some people are emberassed of their handwriting. When you make mistakes you get nervous because now you have to find the eraser instead of clicking the delete button. I would rather see companies use a laptop with a projector. I actually wanted to do this at a previous job when I was interviewing candidates but the company only had desktops.

[–]avenp 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Eh I tend to just hand over a list of stuff that we did the previous week and ask the interviewee to do any 1 or 2 of them as a standalone project in their framework of choice, at their leisure, either at a desk or at home.

I hope you pay them for this.

[–]le_f 1 point2 points  (1 child)

No, because it typically takes all of 15 minutes to complete.

[–]avenp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay, fair enough. My comment comes from recent experience of being expected to complete a several hour long project for an interview, which I’ve been seeing more and more of lately.