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Re:Ask HN: Who wants to practice coding interviews together? by 31reasons on Wednesday May 06, 2015 @04:30PM (#9501583)
In North America at least, any good tech company worth working for will ask you to write code on a whiteboard or computer. I am not sure where do you interview.
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Re:Ask HN: Who wants to practice coding interviews together? by matthewrhoden1 on Wednesday May 06, 2015 @04:36PM (#9501621)
Northern Virginia, yes they sometimes do. I got more of the language specific questions though. "In C# what's the difference between static and const."

When I interviewed google, they wanted me to code something up for them. In California, again I had mostly language specific questions. I did get more logic questions though. It varies from company to company.

Most engineers I talk with though, don't struggle with the problem solving. It's the soft skills and being able to confidently respond to typical questions that they had a hard time with. Easy fix if you do what I suggested.

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