Nepotism can be your friend. Meet people through meetups, open source projects, conferences, non-profit volunteer work, etc. When people know and respect you already and you have an internal champion, the interview process often is much smoother. You'll be more confortable too when you know them. You might even bypass some of the process as well.
Wrong question - the right question is "which companies don't have the typical whiteboard interview". Mine didn't, and it's a regular software engineer job.<p>Here's a list of some - never used it but was on here a while back:<p><a href="https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards</a>
This might sound a little strange, but I would say programming. I have worked in the industry 25+ years now, and I've never had what I would call an interview. I've had informal lunches with the CIO, met the team at BBQ's, like that, but never anything more rigorous. On top of that, I'm fairly introverted, and don't have many friends, but I do have a large number of acquaintances, I'm known to be a good and loyal employee (I don't switch jobs near as often as the norm) and have kept up my skills (I hope) fairly well. I've gotten jobs because people knew about me, essentially, so it can be done.<p>I kind of fear when I actually have to do an interview. I'm hoping I make it to the end of my career before that happens.
Starting a startup. Honestly, the lack of control I felt at interviewing at the top tech firms back in college and my only average GPA was a big motivator for me to start my own business. I hated the idea that my career was out of my control and would depend on whether I could answer challenging interview questions under stress or my GPA/school. This was also at the peak of the ridiculous mythical word problems Microsoft, Google, et al were known for, and those were not my forte whatsoever.<p>Best decision I ever made
Depends on what part of the interviewing process is slowing you down.<p>Your other comment indicates that your question is not "what jobs interview with day-to-day challenges rather than google-scale hypotheticals"<p>>They involve discussing real world problems and work experiences with me. I still do not get offers from them.<p>The question should not be "how do I run from this problem"<p>It is first "how do i get a credible assessment of why I didn't receive offers"<p>and then "how do I build or repair that area of my skills"<p>This applies equally if not especially to "soft skills" aka "how am I perceived by other humans".<p>edit: I poked back into your history and it seems that you figured this out with your question from ~20 days ago. That's the right thread to pull IMO and it looks like that post got some responses. I'd say keep pushing in that area - sub one month is a very short timeline for both personal growth and varied interview rounds.
You are being interviewed to see if you have the technical skills to do the job, and to see how you well you interact with other people. You must learn to be confident and friendly. These are foundational skills.
Work for yourself?<p>Whenever we need to hit consultants for some work, we NEVER make them do technical exercises. We just trust their word.<p>However, the people that want a steady paycheck are put through much more tedious tasks for less pay.
The armed forces are screaming for tech people and really dont care about your interview skills. The US marines are even talking about dropping thier basic training requirements IOT get more tech people.
Startups and companies where technology is not their main product seem to have easier interview processes. If you can find a company that is contracting out their tech and wants to start developing in-house then they do not necessarily have a rigid tech hiring process.
I was just going to post something along this line.. I've been to the 3-4th stage many times it it all falls when I have to do a video call.. every time ( about 25 interviews so far over the course of 4months). At this point I'm starting to think its more of a "culture" fit then anything else which I really dont like to think about. All of these are remote jobs which is odd cause they dont even have to see me or know my race. Even tried to apply to local jobs, no luck.<p>But after having pass tech tests, multiple calls and had people very impress about my 10year career its hard to see anything else then the word "culture" in these instances.
All my jobs were from people I met. Even when they have some interview, I get offered the job before the interview, and the interviews are rigged to let me pass.<p>I normally get filtered out of phone interviews for some reason, with no technical questions. I do perfectly fine when it's a technical interview. I guess I just don't have an attractive personality.