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I've witnessed it in the post-seminar lab visits. It bears little resemblance to the "whiteboard interview" from the developer world, but if you're visiting wit
by jballanc 10y ago
I've witnessed it in the post-seminar lab visits. It bears little resemblance to the "whiteboard interview" from the developer world, but if you're visiting with a faculty member after you present your work, they may ask you to help them understand some piece of your work by drawing out the mechanism.
I'll disagree with the GP, though, on its applicability to "real-world" work. When I did chemistry, diagraming out a reaction mechanism and pondering it over with colleagues gathered in front of the chalkboard was a daily activity.
- dnautics 10y agosure, but it's not like the employer tells the prospective employee to figure out a mechanism that is not related to the employee's former work (for example, a reaction recently discovered in the employer's lab, or a general reaction that "all good organic chemists should know" - like "show me how dansihevsky's diene works, and apply it to the synthesis of this molecule that you've never seen before") Hah damn. I don't want to give the chemists ideas.