Ask HN: Is there a job board or newsletter for jobs without leetcode interviews?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30104785

by throwawaynay • 4 years ago

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It seems that a lot of people(me included) don't like leetcode interviews.

Do you know any job board or newsletters for job offers without any leetcode interviews?

I'm thinking of making either a job board or a newsletter listing only jobs without leetcode interviews, does that seem like a good idea to you?

Thanks

jnguyen642• 4 years ago

I made a job board that showcases the latest job postings that don’t use LeetCode interviews: https://www.nowhiteboard.org

Also, I just added a feature where you can see upfront what programming languages a job posting includes as well

throwawaynay• 4 years ago

pretty cool! that's exactly how I was imagining it :D(I was planning on scraping the github repo too)

I see that some companies from the repo aren't available, did you manage to scrape most of the companies from it or was it problematic?

do you need any help?

jnguyen642• 4 years ago

Appreciate the response! I kept it more limited to US companies in the short term just to limit scope, but I’ll expand it to the other companies at some point.

For some of the other companies, they use very unusual job application platforms, or made their own job platform. Ideally, I’m trying to avoid making an individual web scraper for each company, so I limited the scope to not pulling from those companies.

In addition to that, some companies have annoying platforms (“solve this problem in the web browser before we show you the job application”). I removed the companies that make it obtrusive to apply to them, and have no intention of adding those companies at any point.

As far as help, potentially? I’ve vaguely debated open-sourcing this, but I’m gonna need to think a lot more on whether that’s the direction I want to go. Right now, from a PoC perspective, I think the features are “ok”, so I’m focusing on different marketing strategies at this moment!

amerkhalid• 4 years ago

Thank you, this is great. I have sort of given up and started to practice leetcode in my free time. But would prefer to stop wasting my time on useless riddles.

I also hate take home projects, as they cost company nothing but I end up spending way too much time on these projects.

Ideally, I would prefer if companies did conversational interviews like how other professionals are hired. None of my non-tech friends have to constantly demonstrate that they have skills to do their jobs.

cwdegidio• 4 years ago

Considering LC and other sites catalogue questions and places that do use LC, why not? How would you go about getting data? If you are working with companies directly, maybe ask them what screening they do go with (project based, etc).

Ask HN: Is there a job board or newsletter for jobs without leetcode interviews?

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