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My guess is that he's referring to startups, not monstrous companies like Google. I think the reason you whiteboard for google interviews because you will nece
by erichmond 11y ago
My guess is that he's referring to startups, not monstrous companies like Google.
I think the reason you whiteboard for google interviews because you will necessarily be a cog in a wheel, and the focus of the cog is to code.
At smaller companies / startups, you will potentially be expected to design, architect, gather requirements, code, etc.
- arebop 11y agoI have worked at companies that don't expect candidates to code during interviews, and I have worked at companies that do. I was personally acquainted with programmers who couldn't write working code at the former, and I have never heard of a programmer who couldn't write working code at the latter. I'm sure this perfect correlation anecdote fails to generalize to all workplaces, but I would not accept a job at a company that hires by bs-session again.
- jon_richards 11y agoSee also: FizzBuzz
- MCRed 11y agoSorry, I think google is incompetently run. That they whiteboard, and want prestigious degrees, and all that other BS is just a smell of their incompetence. (Their performance in key technical areas is the proof... but I understand to most readers here they are probably starry eyed about google, while I've competed with them and kicked their ass in the market.)
- eru 11y agoGoogle stopped caring about degrees a few years ago. (Interviewing is still somewhat silly.)