Something I just realized that I wanted to write, but didn't, was that I generally don't do well in whiteboard interviews. I've done a few and it's always algo

Something I just realized that I wanted to write, but didn't, was that I generally don't do well in whiteboard interviews. I've done a few and it's always algorithms that I didn't learn in school because I was EE/CE (not CS) and while I took Data Structures and Algorithms, I didn't take Advanced Data Structures and Algorithms or anything like that. I took two compilers classes (which were great!) and a pile of classes dealing with hardware and the practical realities of computers rather than the theoretical aspects. I'm pretty happy that I did what I did in school, but I wish that people didn't rely on the whiteboard situation as much. If I can talk about what I did to find the edges and corners of a piece of mail in a picture, and how I used that I can rotate the image to be square and then crop the image so that all you see is the letter and not the background, perhaps my ability to do some kind of whiteboard coding exercise isn't terribly relevant. The odds that I can answer questions about how I developed such an algorithm while still not being able to actually write code are pretty small. You're hiring me to solve business problems and last I checked FizzBuzz or reversing a singly-linked-list aren't business problems. End Rant.