Re:The time spent on practising white board test may not be ...
by dahart on Thursday February 15, 2018 @09:44AM
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> After stopping these practice, I leverage the spare time for following tasks: read C++ classical books and learn more about standard libraries
I might suggest this is the best way to study for whiteboard tests in the first place. Practicing for them might only help if you have other people pick the questions and watch you.
The last interview I had, I completely bombed the whiteboard test, but not for technical reasons. I probably wouldn't have been able to practice my way out of it. Luckily, the company also had a live coding test which I aced, and they hired me, so it didn't matter.
As a manager and hiring interviewer, I have to say that I find whiteboard tests moderately useful, even though I agree with pretty much all the criticisms here so far.
The point of it is to try to see how the candidate thinks on their feet, watch them talk their way through a problem without StackOverflow at their fingertips. It almost never matters if the whiteboard code has bugs, the question is more about the process, not the result.
I might suggest this is the best way to study for whiteboard tests in the first place. Practicing for them might only help if you have other people pick the questions and watch you.
The last interview I had, I completely bombed the whiteboard test, but not for technical reasons. I probably wouldn't have been able to practice my way out of it. Luckily, the company also had a live coding test which I aced, and they hired me, so it didn't matter.
As a manager and hiring interviewer, I have to say that I find whiteboard tests moderately useful, even though I agree with pretty much all the criticisms here so far.
The point of it is to try to see how the candidate thinks on their feet, watch them talk their way through a problem without StackOverflow at their fingertips. It almost never matters if the whiteboard code has bugs, the question is more about the process, not the result.