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It is a sniff test to determine if you lied on your CV. I personally suck at "whiteboard" coding too. I'd prefer they leave me in an empty room with a text edi
by UnoriginalGuy 10y ago
It is a sniff test to determine if you lied on your CV.
I personally suck at "whiteboard" coding too. I'd prefer they leave me in an empty room with a text editor and no internet connection for 10 minutes. But part of the exercise is discussing the problem and or showing your interpersonal skills.
Hopefully you'll find a different employer who interviews in a way better suited to you.
- prodigal_erik 10y agoThis. "Anything you've actually done or experience you have" is meaningless until you demonstrate it to someone I trust. I thought this was what Linkedin was going to do until everyone started adding random strangers.
- jwhite 10y agoI'm not sure failing FizzBuzz means you lied on your CV. I suspect that many programmers go straight into an environment where they never have to think about algorithmic problems (even algorithms as simple as FizzBuzz), because others have already developed the platform and all the low-level fiddly bits (like containers, string types and functions, etc.), and they just spend their days plugging them together (query this API, update this database table, call this method on the view class). I have interviewed candidates like this (not web, embedded systems) who talked a lot about the in-house frameworks of their previous employers, and could sketch how they would solve a problem in that environment in hand-waving terms, but couldn't implement strlen() (which would be much closer to the kind of coding they would have to do in our environment).