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The Interview That Ships to Production: replacing whiteboards with pull requests


How we replaced whiteboards with pull requests, and why candidates keep improving the interview itself May 15, 2026 — 7 min read Most technical interviews are performances. You walk into a room (or a Zoom call), solve a contrived puzzle under artificial time pressure, and everyone pretends this reveals something meaningful about how you work.

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