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How “whiteboard interview” trended on Hacker News

“Whiteboard interview” was mentioned 6,975 times on Hacker News between 2008 and 2026, peaking in Feb 2017 with 240 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often “whiteboard interview” appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

Top Hacker News stories about “whiteboard interview”

1. 1.Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using AI? 535 points · 710 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
2. 2.A listing of companies that don't do whiteboard job interviews 369 points · 232 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Ask HN: Can the “Who is Hiring?” post include a bit about the interview process? 328 points · 109 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Ask HN: Senior Positions Interview Prep Resources? 294 points · 111 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Ask HN: What to do about ‘Good at programming Bad at Leetcode’ 291 points · 478 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Ask HN: 8 years working, now 3-4 months off to learn. Looking for advice 218 points · 117 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Engineering whiteboard interviews: yay or nay? 196 points · 359 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Ask HN: I'm a terrible developer, what now? 176 points · 249 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Take-home vs. whiteboard coding: The problem is bad interviews 146 points · 109 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Whiteboard interviews are a test of obedience, not intelligence 100 points · 167 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Ask HN: Do senior engineers have a mental model before coding? 97 points · 79 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Anyone else thinks that Whiteboard interview is just covered ageism? 95 points · 140 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN

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