@NoWhiteboardOrg

Maker of https://xitter.cf/t.co/6DG3jIy0Pd, job board for companies that don’t do LeetCode interviews and show their interview process up-front | Senior Software Engineer

 San Diego, CA
NoWhiteboard.org
Joined July 2020
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A 🧵 on 9 different types of Tech Interviews 👩‍💻: I've looked at thousands of companies hiring software engineers as research 👨‍🔬 for my website nowhiteboard .org. Believe it or not, LeetCode isn't the only way to test a candidate! 👇 Below:
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Just so people know @NoWhiteboardOrg exists. Seen this site improve over time and so proud. nowhiteboard.org #techishiring
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Pretty interesting write-up of 6 non-Leetcode interview formats that a senior engineer encountered recently! Also something great to see is that the companies weren't all small start-ups, either!
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Traffic still seems to be increasing over time! Hit 8.3k visitors in July, with ~3k organically from Google! Most traffic seems to come from people organically sharing the website at this point. Also been dealing with covid which kinda sucks 😿
Screenshot of NoWhiteboard.org's traffic, shown as a graph. Shows 8.3k total unique visitors, 22.4k total pageviews, a 59% bounce rate, and a 2min 16 sec visit duration. There is a spike in visitors over a 2-3 day period around July 19th, peaking around 1.4k visitors for the day. Other days seem to average 200-400 users on the graph

ALT Screenshot of NoWhiteboard.org's traffic, shown as a graph. Shows 8.3k total unique visitors, 22.4k total pageviews, a 59% bounce rate, and a 2min 16 sec visit duration. There is a spike in visitors over a 2-3 day period around July 19th, peaking around 1.4k visitors for the day. Other days seem to average 200-400 users on the graph

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Website was starting to feel a bit too serious sooo I added my dog to the home page!
Screenshot of NoWhiteboard.org home page, showing white header nav bar, stating Company, About, Blog, and Post a Job (Post a job is shown as a yellow/gold button) buttons. Text on the left of main page states "Get your dream job without the nightmare of bad interviews. Filter jobs by programming language, interview type, location and more!". Email sign-up is also shown. To the right is a picture of a poodle with a tie on looking at a computer monitor with the website LeetCode.com pulled up on it, showing the LeetCode question "Invert a binary tree". Poodle looks puzzled at the monitor. At the bottom, a search bar for job positions is shown, with a filter button as well.

ALT Screenshot of NoWhiteboard.org home page, showing white header nav bar, stating Company, About, Blog, and Post a Job (Post a job is shown as a yellow/gold button) buttons. Text on the left of main page states "Get your dream job without the nightmare of bad interviews. Filter jobs by programming language, interview type, location and more!". Email sign-up is also shown. To the right is a picture of a poodle with a tie on looking at a computer monitor with the website LeetCode.com pulled up on it, showing the LeetCode question "Invert a binary tree". Poodle looks puzzled at the monitor. At the bottom, a search bar for job positions is shown, with a filter button as well.

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Started focusing on SEO this month and it shows👀 Gonna double down on SEO in June. I've got some good ideas in mind, and I'm hopeful they'll pay off! I'll be experimenting with Programmatic SEO! It's not talked about too much online, so there will be useful learnings 😄
Screenshot of a google search console graph, showcasing number of clicks and impressions per day. Clicks average 20-40 from Februrary up until the end of May, where it jumps to 70+ per day. Impressions stay around 200-300 until end of May, where they jump to 6k+ per day, and peaking at 11.7k

ALT Screenshot of a google search console graph, showcasing number of clicks and impressions per day. Clicks average 20-40 from Februrary up until the end of May, where it jumps to 70+ per day. Impressions stay around 200-300 until end of May, where they jump to 6k+ per day, and peaking at 11.7k

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Anyone have suggestions for alternatives to Google Analytics? Ideally, it could somehow track events of users with Adblock, if that’s possible?? Google Search is showing twice the # of organic clicks I’m seeing via Analytics, so I’d like to get an accurate #!
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If your company recommends “Cracking the Coding Interview” in their blog post showing off the interview process but your Co-CEO says they’re against LeetCode, your interview process is not as progressive as you think it is 😬
Co-CEO writing LinkedIn post about how LeetCode interviews shouldn’t be used anymore

ALT Co-CEO writing LinkedIn post about how LeetCode interviews shouldn’t be used anymore

Blog post of company mentioning you should use Cracking the Coding Interview to help prepare for their interview

ALT Blog post of company mentioning you should use Cracking the Coding Interview to help prepare for their interview

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Made some changes to NoWhiteboard's header 👀 I spent the whole weekend thinking about how to improve the landing page copy - this is what I ended on. S/O to @mia__bala and @allysedotdev for doing the bulk of it! S/O to me for the moral support 🤣
Picture of NoWhiteboard.org, showing a background color of a purple/pink linear gradient and text stating "Get your dream job without the nightmare of bad interviews." "Find tech jobs without whiteboard coding interviews. Filter by programming language, interview type, location, and more!"

ALT Picture of NoWhiteboard.org, showing a background color of a purple/pink linear gradient and text stating "Get your dream job without the nightmare of bad interviews." "Find tech jobs without whiteboard coding interviews. Filter by programming language, interview type, location, and more!"

Picture showing old version of NoWhiteboard.org website, showing blue header background and old landing page text, stating "Tired of Leetcode? Find jobs that don't use whiteboard coding interviews. Use the filters to search by programming language, interview type, location and more"

ALT Picture showing old version of NoWhiteboard.org website, showing blue header background and old landing page text, stating "Tired of Leetcode? Find jobs that don't use whiteboard coding interviews. Use the filters to search by programming language, interview type, location and more"

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Jon Nguyen retweeted
Kurt Schrader
@kurt9 May 2022
Can’t believe that companies are still doing this in 2022.
Jon Nguyen@NoWhiteboardOrg9 May 2022
Pleasantly amazed by how many no whiteboard interview companies I use for my website: @ConvertKit - newsletters @SlackHQ - messaging @github @useShortcut - better JIRA @stripe - payments No surprise that companies that care about user experience also care about their interviews
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Pleasantly amazed by how many no whiteboard interview companies I use for my website: @ConvertKit - newsletters @SlackHQ - messaging @github @useShortcut - better JIRA @stripe - payments No surprise that companies that care about user experience also care about their interviews
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For anyone outside of the US, what do tech interviews look like for you there? Is it still primarily whiteboard/LeetCode interviews, or are they doing something potentially worse?
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For anyone familiar with blog SEO, is it better to do multiple posts, or a giant post? I’m working on a post to showcase resumes that get FAANG offers/interviews, and describing what’s good about them. The small posts would break them down by programming language
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Is there a job board/resource for part-time tech jobs (as in ~20 hours/wk)? Not 4 day work weeks, but actual part time jobs. I feel like tech pays so much that living frugally with a part time job would be do-able
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Added a thread showcasing some part-time roles here: xitter.cf/NoWhiteboardOrg/status…
Jon Nguyen@NoWhiteboardOrg2 May 2022
Compiled a list of companies based on this tweet: Here's 7 companies offering 3 day work weeks, or ~20hr/week jobs xitter.cf/NoWhiteboardOrg/status…
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Compiled a list of companies based on this tweet: Here's 7 companies offering 3 day work weeks, or ~20hr/week jobs xitter.cf/NoWhiteboardOrg/status…
Jon Nguyen@NoWhiteboardOrg1 May 2022
Is there a job board/resource for part-time tech jobs (as in ~20 hours/wk)? Not 4 day work weeks, but actual part time jobs. I feel like tech pays so much that living frugally with a part time job would be do-able
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@gumroad doesn't currently offer 30 hour or less work weeks at this moment, but looks like it could be an option at some point (pay rate is $100/hr) xitter.cf/curtiseinsmann/status/…
Curtis Einsmann@einsmanntech1 May 2022
Replying to @NoWhiteboardOrg
FWIW, I do this now. ~20 hours/wk for Gumroad, in a consultant-client relationship. Idk an aggregated job board for general part-time positions. Gumroad is hiring, but at 35 hours. Here’s the job board — hours/positions change based on need. notion.so/Jobs-f43f816013b24…
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The overlying theme on my original thread asking for part-time roles is that the best way to achieve a part-time role is to consult for companies, on the expectation that it's part time. See here: xitter.cf/brendoneus/status/1521…
Brendan Enrick@brendoneus2 May 2022
Replying to @NoWhiteboardOrg
I'm an independent developer, and I work with multiple clients at a time. Right now, I have two half-time clients. I could work with just one and be in that zone you suggest.
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