poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards

Hiring Without Whiteboards is a community-maintained list of companies and teams that use practical, work-resembling interview processes instead of the traditional whiteboard-style technical interview. The term whiteboard interview is used here as a shorthand for a broader category of interview practices that ask candidates to solve abstract computer science puzzles, algorithm trivia, or brain-teasers on the spot, which the project's contributors argue are poor predictors of actual job performance. The list catalogs hundreds of companies alphabetically, noting their location, whether they offer remote work, and a brief description of their actual interview process. Common alternatives represented in the list include take-home coding exercises, pair programming on realistic tasks, code review discussions, and system design conversations grounded in the company's real engineering problems. The project also links to an Airtable database where the data can be searched and filtered, and provides recommendations for companies on how to design better interviews. You would use this list if you are a software engineer job-hunting and you want to specifically target companies that assess candidates on practical skills relevant to the actual role, rather than spending time grinding competitive programming problems on LeetCode or HackerRank. It is also useful for engineering managers or founders looking for ideas on how to structure a fairer hiring process. The repository itself requires no installation. It is a plain markdown document, with some supporting JavaScript tooling for syncing contributions to the Airtable database. Anyone can submit a pull request to add or remove a company based on their recent first-hand interview experience.