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		fazkan on July 29, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hiring Without Whiteboards A. this is a good list. B. Lets not forget that whiteboarding is not all evil. If used correctly, it can filter out a lot of people that don't have good CS fundamentals. By fundamentals, I don't mean inverting a binary tree. At the end of the day, as a technical manager, the goal is to hire smart+hard working people.

asdff on July 29, 2020 [–]

But are you really hiring smart+hardworking people or just people who are really great at working on a whiteboard?

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