In every engineering team’s office around the world, you’ll find whiteboards. Covered in scribbled diagrams, wire-frames, and database tables, whiteboards and engineers go hand in hand. It’s no wonder that for years whiteboards have been the status quo when it comes to running technical onsite interviews.
Whiteboard is one of the essential features of our remote interviewing product. Using the whiteboard, both the interviewer and candidate can quickly draw diagrams and shapes to translate technical questions on a high level.
NOTE: Codility uses Miro to provide whiteboards in Interviews, so if you experience issues accessing a whiteboard, you may need to work with your IT team to have access to it. You can find Miro domains that need to be whitelisted by your organization here.
In Whiteboard, interviewers and candidates can:
- Draw free-form objects with a pencil, pen, and other stroke types in any color
- Add text boxes, resize text, and format with color
- Draw and use lines to connect objects together
- Create circles, rectangles, and other shapes
- Add sticky notes with additional notes
- Upload photos and screenshots to draw on top of
- Upload PDFs and PowerPoint slides for more complex systems
- Resize and move objects around
- Undo, clear, and pan around the Canvas
- Use arrows, shapes, system icons (Azure, AWS, Cisco etc), wireframe templates and easily connect them together to create quick and clear diagrams.
- Use copy/paste or drag to bring external images into your canvas easily and quickly as needed
You'll be able to add your own public Miro board when creating an interview:
When in an interview, you can either create a new Miro board or use an existing one:
Can I review the whiteboard after the interview has ended?
When the interview is completed, the Candidate Report will display the whiteboard so you can review it at a later time.
If you prefer, you can export the board, as well. You'll need to be logged in to Miro to do that:
If you have any additional questions about Interview or would like to leave your feedback, please contact us at support@codility.com.