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The point of a whiteboard interview for me isn't about accuracy and efficiency. It's about seeing whether the person can code and can talk to me about coding.
by romanows 6y ago
The point of a whiteboard interview for me isn't about accuracy and efficiency. It's about seeing whether the person can code and can talk to me about coding.
- redisman 6y agoEveryone says this but has anyone been hired if they can’t come up with working code in the session?
- romanows 6y agoYes, of course. I rely on compilers, linters, and editor syntax highlighting when writing code, so it'd be pretty hypocritical for me to penalize people who can't access those things. People can sketch out a pretty messy pseudo-code implementation if they want, and then we'll just spend the rest of the interview cleaning it up, making it correct, extending it, talking about quirks of their implementation.