Looks like you have some good pointers there. Having done quite a bit of interviewing for programmers/tech writers I would say most people are not natural with

Looks like you have some good pointers there. Having done quite a bit of interviewing for programmers/tech writers I would say most people are not natural with live coding and whiteboard work. I personally was lost without Emacs and a compiler to hand. My last white-boarding session that was part of an interview was just horrible (writing Java code on a whiteboard) - I did get the job though so even if it's painful all is not lost. Like anything though you get better with practice (as you are doing). If you've got a whiteboard at home I would do impromptu sessions where you write up say tree creation and traversal, doubly-linked lists or whatever is appropriate for the job. If you've got a coder friend you can run things by that's even better. Also, make sure your GitHub page has got some meat there. Good luck!