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I've interviewed people for a junior position recently. I gave the FizzBuzz test, verbatim from Wikipedia. Only about 10% were able to do it on a whiteboard, wi
by jeffasinger 12y ago
I've interviewed people for a junior position recently. I gave the FizzBuzz test, verbatim from Wikipedia. Only about 10% were able to do it on a whiteboard, without help.
- opendais 12y agoI can't write any code effectively on a whiteboard in front of an audience. -> I'm a terrible programmer. TIL I'm a terrible programmer.
- pkaye 12y agoAn audience of one. What about on a piece of paper? In front of a computer. How would do in code reviews? You can state your concerns to the interviewer to see if they can accommodate.
- opendais 12y agoI've never seen a whiteboard interview with only one interviewer. The smallest was 2. Whiteboards are for diagramming things more complicated than lines of code. [e.g. Interactions between several web services or paths of control across entire programs] I've honestly just accepted that by the standards of many people's interviewing processes I'm a bad programmer. :)
- HeyLaughingBoy 12y agoYup. Hell, if you think you can do it, but you're put off by a whiteboard, I'll get you a laptop with a development environment on it and leave the room to let you work on the problem. Interviews are stressful. Keeping the candidate relaxed should be on the interviewer's mind.