There's many more grading points to a computer solution. You're not graded for code style on the whiteboard; from what I've gathered, having an algorithm + code

There's many more grading points to a computer solution. You're not graded for code style on the whiteboard; from what I've gathered, having an algorithm + code to implement is sufficient (not counting the verbal part). On the computer, however, you bet they're going to grade you on style, syntax, leverage of oop. etc. It's not something I realized when I did it which is why it probably (they never actually told me the result) failed. I just did an easy solution- I had good seperation of functions, leveraged access modifiers, etc but I didn't wow them. Right, I can't speak for my interviewers but I was given several whiteboard questions and a computer question. They probably wanted to see what my code was actually like on the computer, while they tested my problem solving skills on the whiteboard. I guess if you chose just the computer as an exam you'd treat it more like a whiteboard.