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This is the reason whiteboarding gets a lot of hate. It's really a great way to get insight into how people approach problems and how fluent they are in a subj
by ben509 7y ago
This is the reason whiteboarding gets a lot of hate.
It's really a great way to get insight into how people approach problems and how fluent they are in a subject. And if they get something wrong, but they thought it through, that's a problem that will fix itself pretty readily. The person who doesn't think stuff through likely won't start.
But the naive approach to whiteboarding is to do it as a test, can the person perform task X on the fly. The trouble is it's invariably an ad hoc test that generates ludicrously biased data. The really bad interviewers want to stroke their ego by stumping you with all the cool minutiae they know.
- oarabbus_ 7y agoA week after, I passed a whiteboarding with one interviewer, the first of 4, at another large company (not FANG tier) writing pandas and SQL. The interviewer cared about design and the steps to perform a data loading task then querying it, and offered the choice of writing code or pseudocode (I did pseudo for python and wrote out the SQL explicitly). That’s the proper way to whiteboard.