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I generally agree with the article in regards to social pressure/anxiety being very high for a whiteboard style interview. However I disagree with its sentimen
by source99 11y ago
I generally agree with the article in regards to social pressure/anxiety being very high for a whiteboard style interview.
However I disagree with its sentiment that coding resources are free and have no cost. I think this attitude leads to poor quality code. My reasoning is that if you don't have to spend any effort to write code than you will write the laziest code possible. This code might work but it will only work because it evolved from the wrong solution to a barely working solution. If compute time was more of a scare resource developers would spend more time writing correct code instead of iterating until something works.
I don't mean that all developers code poorly because of the decrease in the time of the iteration loop but I feel that it does lead to poor code in the general case.