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While I agree with the sentiment, I wouldn't call it "college-style exams", to be honest. Colleges would be quite different if exams were conducted one-on-one,
by filoleg 10y ago
While I agree with the sentiment, I wouldn't call it "college-style exams", to be honest. Colleges would be quite different if exams were conducted one-on-one, and instructor would have been willing to talk with you through the problem and cared more about your thought train and approach rather than the exact solution. In fact, I am pretty sure that if you just knew the correct solution and the answer to the coding interview and simply wrote it down silently on the whiteboard (which would be the best outcome on a college exam), you would be rejected instantaneously.
- paulgb 10y agoI used to interview for Google, if a candidate knew an answer immediately I'd be impressed but I'd always have a harder variation in my back pocket. And if you write out the answer in silence, be prepared for a "tell me how it works" follow-up.
- FLUX-YOU 10y ago>simply wrote it down silently on the whiteboard (which would be the best outcome on a college exam), you would be rejected instantaneously. No, jesus. Some people need to switch to a presentation mindset and out of a problem-solving mindset. This is completely normal in life. I'm starting to think most interviewers are terrible only for not having a decent amount of social interaction with strangers. Let's just admit it's 90% hazing ritual at this point so we can get on with putting up guides to get through it.
- n4r9 10y agoOral examinations used to be fairly common, back when the student/examiner ratio was low enough. There's a legend that the Cambridge "Tripos" examination gets its name from the tripod that candidates sat on during that examination: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripos#Etymology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripos#Etymology