Re:Ask HN: How to prepare for technical interviews?
by kls on Monday March 09, 2015 @02:45PM
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I could not have said it better, white-boarding is about as far away from a persons coding routine as it gets. Not to mention we all rely on REPL and the debugger from time to time to save us from simple mistakes, there is no iterative process on the whiteboard. Interviewers that insist on white-boarding should be viewed as companies that don't "get it" and you should focus your time elsewhere.
Re:Ask HN: How to prepare for technical interviews?
by dagw on Tuesday March 10, 2015 @05:44AM
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I've never had a white board interview where the interviewer cared about syntax or simple mistakes. I always 'code' in a mixture of pseudo code, math notation and diagrams depending on what makes sense and no one has ever complained.
- write using their hands
- face one direction and talk in another
- talk while coding
- estimate insertion space
- write in horizontally straight lines
- avoid getting ink on their sleeves
The best places I've interviewed at game me a machine, a problem, and some quiet time to solve it.
However for others, I bring pencil and grid paper, and ask to sit beside people and solve the problem with them looking over my shoulder.