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You'd better be looking for psuedocode, because if you're looking for syntax, no strong programmer with experience is going to take you seriously. Honestly, wh
by silverbax88 10y ago
You'd better be looking for psuedocode, because if you're looking for syntax, no strong programmer with experience is going to take you seriously.
Honestly, whiteboard interviews are for lightweight startups with very little programming knowledge. You should be looking at logic, not syntax. You should be looking at how the person thinks, not if they can memorize a specific language to do a simple task.
- toephu2 10y agoHave you ever interviewed at Google? They care about syntax, psuedocode will not cut it in the interviews... and Google has a lot of strong programmers.
- tchaffee 10y agoGoogle has the name to attract strong programmers. I'd like to see stats on how few (or many) strong programmers their interview process misses. Especially when that interview process is used at a company without such a huge name.