They Whiteboarded Me
A community list of interview experiences. Some are great, some are rough. It’s useful when you want a heads up on what a process is like before you spend a bunch of time on it.
Articles, research, and tools for navigating hiring in tech — especially if the traditional process wasn't built with you in mind.
A community list of interview experiences. Some are great, some are rough. It’s useful when you want a heads up on what a process is like before you spend a bunch of time on it.
The origin of the no-whiteboard company data included on this site. Huge credit to the folks maintaining it. The idea is simple: keep a public list of teams that don’t lean on CS trivia, puzzles, or gotcha questions as the main filter.
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Mission-driven boards for nonprofit, climate, civic, and responsible tech roles.
A broad job platform with mission-driven companies and startup opportunities across product, engineering, and operations.
Community-driven resources and events focused on responsible tech, digital trust, and ethical product development.
Curated high-impact roles in global health, policy, AI safety, and other paths aimed at maximizing positive impact.
Startup-focused job search with transparent salary/equity details, including many social-impact and climate startups.
A dedicated climate jobs network spanning software, data, hardware, policy, and operations roles.
Jobs from nonprofits, civic tech teams, and mission-driven orgs using technology to tackle social challenges.
Roles at tech nonprofits and impact startups, with a strong focus on public-interest and social-good products.
Nonprofit technology and digital roles, especially useful for folks interested in mission-focused orgs.
A focused board for ethical tech roles in trust and safety, AI governance, human rights, and civic impact.
One of the largest nonprofit and social-impact job platforms, including remote and international opportunities.
Impact-first roles across climate, education, health, and sustainability, with startup and scale-up positions.
A resource roundup of vetted job boards for impactful careers, useful when you want a wider search funnel.
Research and reporting on how traditional technical interviews systematically disadvantage neurodivergent, anxious, and non-traditional candidates.
Candidates interviewed in private performed about twice as well as public whiteboard candidates, showing anxiety can overwhelm signal.
Autistic candidates scored better on transcript content, but lower when nonverbal/video cues were included, highlighting format bias.
Reviews the mismatch between strong autistic representation in CS education and weaker hiring and pay outcomes in software roles.
Summarizes recent survey data showing many neurodivergent candidates feel timed tests and live coding put them at a disadvantage.
Reports concrete discrimination examples from neurodivergent job seekers and explains why interview redesign matters.
Practical, skills-based alternatives to traditional interviews from a neurodivergent IO psychology practitioner.
Covers real hiring programs at large companies that are improving outcomes for neurodivergent candidates.
Survey-based workplace inclusion data useful for understanding scale, patterns, and gaps.
Finding a better alternative to the whiteboard interview — long-form.
How to hire engineering talent without the BS — practical guide.
How I Hire Programmers — classic essay on evaluating people over puzzles.
Balanced, well-sourced reporting on AI-assisted development — productivity, skill erosion, and the entry-level picture.
A balanced overview of where AI coding tools genuinely help and where evidence is still mixed.
Large-scale developer survey showing AI adoption is high while confidence and sentiment are becoming more nuanced.
Readable synthesis of major AI productivity studies with useful caveats and context.
Telemetry data exploring the gap between individual productivity gains and team-level delivery impact.
Discusses the entry-level squeeze while outlining practical opportunities for early-career developers.
Explains how job shifts vary by role type, with some software and security categories still growing.
How AI tools are helping neurodivergent developers, learners with disabilities, and people who work differently.
Lived-experience perspective on AI as assistive technology for neurodivergent workers.
Design-focused guidance for building AI-enabled products with neurodiversity and accessibility in mind.
Systematic review of 21 studies on where generative AI supports learning and regulation for neurodivergent students.
Peer-reviewed review of generative AI support patterns for neurodivergent learners.
Higher-ed perspective on practical ways AI is improving accessibility for learners with disabilities.
Peer-reviewed CHI study on how developers with visual impairments benefit from AI coding assistants and where friction remains.