[chistev]

Why did that approach change?

[ta8903]

Surely the modern equivalent to that is having public git repositories.

[HarHarVeryFunny]

Perhaps, but has "I'm not doing your whiteboard challenge - check out my git repositories instead!" ever worked for you?!

[zhxiaoliang]

Haha, for some reason when phrased like that I get a bad feeling about the outcome of the interview.

[zhxiaoliang]

I’m not sure if that strategy still works in today’s job market. It might still be, but I’m not the one to answer since I haven’t been on a job interview in quite some time.

[joezydeco]

I work in embedded systems. I always carry a few (small) projects with me in a backpack with a power supply and bring them out if certain topics allow me to do a show-and-tell.

I also carry a binder. Each page is a one-page description of a project with a color photo of the system and a bulled-point list of all technologies inside. It's a great conversation starter. Hasn't failed me yet.

[HeyLaughingBoy]

10 years after I was hired, one of the interviewers still remembered me showing him a small board that I'd designed, even though he was a Windows MFC programmer and didn't know the first thing about microcontrollers.

I've made great hires who had binders just like you described.