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Fabián Rodríguez for SunDevs

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The main reason to stop making whiteboard interviews to hire developers

The whiteboard interviews have been very relevant for a lot of companies when they are looking to hire software developers, however, can be counterproductive; here are my arguments:

Whiteboard interviews are focused on the performance of the candidate, so, when someone is looking at what are you doing the step to step, we can get nervous, and the anxiety could cause that we can't to think correctly.

This is exposed in a study published in November of 2020 from North Carolina State University and Microsoft [1]. They found that the technical interviews currently used in hiring for many software engineering positions test whether a job candidate has performance anxiety rather than whether the candidate is competent at coding.

What do you think about this?

[1] Does stress impact technical interview performance?

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