I've been both an interviewee and an interviewer and honestly, in both roles, I prefer pseudo code. As an interviewer, it gives me a chance to step back from n

I've been both an interviewee and an interviewer and honestly, in both roles, I prefer pseudo code. As an interviewer, it gives me a chance to step back from noticing syntax errors and lets me focus on how the candidate thinks, reasons and explains her way through problems. As an interviewee, I prefer pseudo code because I don't have to worry about syntax or minute details of a language. Instead, I can just focus on communicating how I'm working through the problem.