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Why do you feel whiteboard problems are an insult? And why do you feel you don't do well on them? Just because others spend a ton of practice on them, didn't me
by chrismcb 6y ago
Why do you feel whiteboard problems are an insult? And why do you feel you don't do well on them?
Just because others spend a ton of practice on them, didn't mean you don't have a chance.
- ChrisMarshallNY 6y agoBecause most are "young-pass filters," and that makes itself obvious, as soon as I see them. I've learned that when I see a binary tree question, I might as well just wrap up the interview. They have no intention of hiring me. I am mediocre at them. Most represent stuff I haven't done. A lot of it is common sense, but I'm solving them for the first time, so my approach is usually sub-optimal (I tend to start with naive approaches, then refine, if necessary). The testers are usually looking for a formulaic approach. A lot of my approaches are orthogonal to the "classics." I started as an EE, so I'm pretty good with things like drivers, SDKs and APIs, but they aren't really something that you can do in a 50-line test. What's really insulting, is that when I'm asked, I usually send links to relevant gists or repos; often focused on the exact method that addresses the question asked. It's ignored (so far, 100% of the time -the "faker" comment was made by someone that was explaining why they ignored it).