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Re:Senior Developers Are Getting Rejected for Jobs by kstenerud on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @12:12PM (#19920843)
When I do whiteboard questions, I write in pseudocode. It takes some companies by surprise, but in the end they usually understand my reasoning:

Whiteboards are for writing down algorithms and quick charts and other design-phase stuff, not writing compilable code.

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Re:Senior Developers Are Getting Rejected for Jobs by kyralis on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @12:23PM (#19920963)
I explicitly tell candidates that they should use pseudocode. Nitpicking stupid syntax that the compiler can catch in a whiteboard interview is pretty pointless.
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