It really won't take that long to freshen up your your white board skills so that [pass that next round of whiteboard hazing] Actually it does (and that's part

It really won't take that long to freshen up your your white board skills so that [pass that next round of whiteboard hazing] Actually it does (and that's part of the whole point of the massive burnout crisis caused by these tests). By and large -- they've become so distorted (either by intentionally asking candidates to solve ridiculously hard problems; or by having these goals set, or simply having the tasks so carelessly so as to achieve the same effect) that they've basically lost any grounding in reality. The only way to soften the blow (that is, to significantly reduce the chance of immediate rejection) is to cram -- that is, to in effect make it your part-time job (for a little while) specifically "practicing for" (that is, memorizing the expected outcomes of) these tests. Which of course defeats the entire purpose of the "test". As one would think these companies would be smart enough to know. Yes I know many people are ready to say, "But when Iinterview I just do this simple FizzBuzz-oid thing I came up with that anyone who claims to have a CS degree should be ale to solve." What I mean is -- the last time I had to go through this ritual -- about 50 percent of the time these tests (or simply the environment in which they were conducted) were seriously off-base in one form or another. And in more than a few cases I wish I could forget, ridiculously so.