A listing of companies that don't do whiteboard job interviews

Re:A listing of companies that don't do whiteboard job inter... by thomascgalvin on Saturday March 02, 2019 @04:21PM (#19291238)

I agree, if you implement a linked list in production code, you've almost certainly made a mistake.

My point is that a linked list is such a simple concept that anyone with real programming experience should be able to write a basic implementation.

It's a Shibboleth; I only care about your ability to perform the task because it tells me something else about you.

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Re:A listing of companies that don't do whiteboard job inter... by BurningFrog on Saturday March 02, 2019 @04:26PM (#19291262)

OK, I have to kinda agree.

It almost levels the playing field in the sense that since no one actually writes these things, we're probably all equally half clumsy with them :)

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Re:A listing of companies that don't do whiteboard job inter... by SamReidHughes on Sunday March 03, 2019 @02:00PM (#19296119)

For linked lists I'd regard the question really being about whether the candidate understands pointers.

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Re:A listing of companies that don't do whiteboard job inter... by crooked-v on Saturday March 02, 2019 @07:17PM (#19291959)

Fizzbuzz serves a similar role.

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