Timeline for Remote technical interviews: how to whiteboard without the actual whiteboard?
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| Dec 20, 2021 at 17:02 | comment | added | Kevin Carlson | @f222 That's probably not a bad general heuristic, but don't forget that there are more things in heaven and earth than dreamt of in your philosophy. Maybe you're working with somebody who likes to write in Idris, which is specifically defined for a declare types-define-refine workflow that relies on being in the text editor. It would be pointless to ever get a piece of paper out. I'm not actually a professional programmer, but I am a mathematician, and I have far too much experience of the diversity of approaches to starting a mathematical argument to have any hard "no-no"s. | |
| Dec 20, 2021 at 9:32 | comment | added | f222 | I don't really agree with your last sentence. From my personnal expereience, good programmers always use a whiteboard/ a sheet of paper to write doown and narrow their ideas before starting to write code. A programmer whose first step of thinking is writing code is a big no-no for me | |
| Dec 17, 2021 at 14:08 | comment | added | Kevin Carlson | @8protons Not entirely. There’s plenty of distaste for being judged on ability to produce code for an artificial problem under high stress without the usual tools. Only the artificiality of the problem has any connection to the complaint you list. Interviewers may think about whiteboard problems as collaborative, but interviewees don’t usually experience them that way. See for instance: shecancode.io/blog/… | |
| Dec 16, 2021 at 23:51 | comment | added | 8protons | "this is about the first time I’ve ever heard anybody say anything nice about whiteboarding." I think we've all heard our fair share of vitriol regarding the white board interview, but I was always under the impression that the disdain was towards the "riddle-ish" nature of algorithm problems that lead to the white board - not the tangible and collaborative process of solving a problem illustratively. | |
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| S Dec 16, 2021 at 23:33 | history | answered | Kevin Carlson | CC BY-SA 4.0 |