Have you found yourself in an interview and were thrown a puzzle question that you’ve, never, ever written in your daily coding life?

I’m sure you have. We had too.

Using algorithm puzzles for assessing a developer’s tech skills is plain wrong. I know. It exists for a reason. For many big companies, they don’t really care. But that doesn’t make it right.

We developers, should be defined as what we build, not what puzzles we can solve.

Tech has developed so much more since the past, far beyond some smart tricks that can cover in some whiteboarding. Many of the points are well written by the awesome folks here at they.whiteboarded.me, so I’ll save some words.

Today, we’re launching real.dev.