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What does everyone think about whiteboard interviews?

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  • 2
    ask me next Tuesday. I have a 4 hour code test interview scheduled for next Monday.
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  • 3
    I've heard stories about people who almost got hired until the whiteboard test when they were asked to reverse an array and apparently didn't know how to write a simple loop... So I feel like they are necessary lol
  • 4
    I like it because it is how we all code everyday. We all use white boards to write stuff that language provides. We don't use computers we use white boards.
  • 2
    Funny story, I had to do the FizzBuzz one in PHP and very confident me created a variable to hold the output of "range(1, 100)". This was so I could loop with "foreach" and use the numbers 1-100 being held in the array. Once I reached the parking lot I facepalmed so hard realizing a simple "for" loop would have sufficed. I must have gotten nervous and cocky at the same time.
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    I have a fantasy where I'm not nervous enough to write fizzbuzz three ways: for a small number (recursive), a large number (for loop) and an extremely large number (map an array). which might not be correct, but at least shows I've done the required reading.
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