Ask HN: Who does presentation interviews?

1 points by freework 9y ago ↗ HN

There are many different ways to interview prospective programmers: Whiteboard interviews, take-home-projects, pair programming interviews, etc. One type of interview that I think I'll do the best at is the presentation interview.

The presentation interview is when instead of trying to impress the company with writing radix sort from memory, you impress them with a 30 minute presentation on a project you've built.

I only know of one company that interviews this way, and that is genius (formerly rap genius). What are the other companies that hire this way?

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prudence0 9y ago ↗

I had to do such a presentation about myself (I think the intent was to gauge other things than technical knowledge) in the final round of interviews at BMW in Germany. This obviously was after a series of technical rounds including a chat/collaborative editor screen, a short homework project and final whiteboard interviews.

I doubt any company would do just a presentation interview.