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So what, we just let everyone who says they can code in? That's how fizzbuzz was born.

• ubernostrum 10y ago
  Stating for the 1e100th time in discussions of this topic: whiteboard interviews do not test coding ability and do not usefully distinguish people who are able to code from people who are not. So any argument proceeding from the assumption that doing away with them equates to no longer testing for ability to code is invalid and contains a known-false assumption.
  • rjbwork 10y ago
    Yes I agree with this. I even stated as such, that I give and prefer to get coding tests using an actual computer. I'm not talking about those. f I ask someone the complexity of searching a binary tree, or show them a double for loop with that iterates over the same collection in each loop, and ask them the complexity of that, I expect them to say logn and n^2. Bonus points for addressing best, average, and worst case performances and what kind of data drives those. If I ask someone to write a small program at their own laptop to parse an integer, I expect them to be able to do that. This shows the absolute bare minimum in competency at the job you'll be asked to perform.