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>As I said above, it's not perfect, but it's far more useful than hiring someone without any coding exercises Whiteboarding vs no coding exercises is a false d
by mtviewdave 12y ago
>As I said above, it's not perfect, but it's far more useful than hiring someone without any coding exercises
Whiteboarding vs no coding exercises is a false dichotomy. There are ways to test coding in a 45 minute interview that don't involve standing in front of a whiteboard, writing with a marker.
- frostmatthew 12y ago> Whiteboarding vs no coding exercises is a false dichotomy. Sorry, it wasn't my intention to suggest those were the only two options (I was attempting to comment on the benefits of coding exercises, regardless of method). Using a computer is certainly as good or better than a whiteboard. Though one of the bigger downsides to using a computer is there's generally this expectation you need to write "real" code that actually compiles and runs and so the focus becomes as much on writing syntactically correct code as about how you solve the problem (when only the latter has value).