2 ms·

As someone who is graduating this semester, those kinds of questions are very commonly asked to recent grads and for junior positions. In fact it would make les

• kazinator 11y ago
  That is true, but you aren't going to be grilled on it as strictly if you were an experienced developer. We in the industry know that CS programs don't consistently crank out people with superb coding skills. Those people are almost always "self-made" programmers (who got their CS degrees too). > In fact it would make less sense to ask a senior programmer whiteboard questions. Indeed, but he or she isn't one, right? Look at some of the comments: There was also a fair amount of confusion on the out of bounds issue, which we feel was the type of bug that would have been caught faster by a more experienced engineer. Basically the message is we are looking for a more experienced engineer for this position and not you suck at white-boarding, go away! But they know about the level of experience from the resume. So why bother interviewing at all? Probably they are somewhat willing to overlook lack of documented experience, in case a "superstar" programmer shows up. You know, one of those who has been programming since age six, and whose CS degree is just a paper with a stamp so their resume isn't tossed aside. (Or it could just be a string of bad luck, or the way the job market is in the area. Maybe everyone is grilling new grads to find superstar programmers.)