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It would be unprofessional to judge a candidate purely on the basis of their resumè. I wouldn't expect an adult with years of experience to find such a test eve

• smt88 10y ago
  Being tested is totally fine. I have no issue with testing someone's skills. Doing a whiteboard test is not only a waste of time, it's nothing like actual coding. It's both too simple (in terms of skills) and too hard (in terms of environment). Let's take fizzbuzz just as an example. As others have said in these comments, they know great coders who failed fizzbuzz. Fizzbuzz tells you exactly zero about how someone would be at writing code that's readable, testable, and maintainable, which are the most important technical skills. Those are hard skills to master, and they can be tested by interviewers by using a real-world problem. Let the candidate sit by herself for a few hours and work on it. The whiteboard interview also puts someone who is potentially desperate for a job and terrified of being embarrassed in a high-pressure situation, where failure instantly means she's "incompetent" or "stupid". Who can't do fizzbuzz, right? Well I'll tell you: people who aren't super calm in artificial, high-pressure testing situations sometimes can't do fizzbuzz.