Hiring without whiteboards

Re:Hiring without whiteboards by whatwasmypwd on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @03:11AM (#13874356)

Is pair programming really that different from whiteboarding?

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Re:Hiring without whiteboards by pmiller2 on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @03:25AM (#13874404)

More specifically, I would say "interview pair programming" isn't really "pair programming." When pair programming, it's not one person evaluating the other, under an artificial time constraint.

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Re:Hiring without whiteboards by whatwasmypwd on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @03:43AM (#13874464)

Can you really have any other kind of pair programming in interview context?

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Re:Hiring without whiteboards by pmiller2 on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @04:02AM (#13874539)

Precisely.

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