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> Does this mean that the whiteboard coding interviews are flawed They are optimizing for something. It's just not what you think it is. A lot of it seems to

• ChrisMarshallNY 5y ago
  > hazing ritual Got it in one. Whenever I ask people about these tests, we have some back-and-forth, and it inevitably ends with them declaring (in so many words): “Well, I got hazed, so you will, too.” I don’t suck at the tests, but I’m not particularly good at them. I never practice them, and didn’t come up through the traditional CS curriculum (I started as an EE), so I’m often seeing the problems for the first time, when I look at them. They just don’t have any relevance to the type of work I have experience doing, or the value I could bring to a team. Since it seems that most interviewers are looking for particularly formulaic responses, they are a pretty good way of filtering out people like me. I’m always puzzled as to why interviewers waste valuable time on these seemingly pointless exams. If they don't want me to work for them, there's much easier ways to discourage me.