Simon Meskens
Aug 9, 2017 · 1 min read

The same as when candidates refuse to do whiteboard interviews? I know several devs that loathe whiteboard interviews and will refuse to do them, you’re the first I’ve seen to prefer them over a pair programming session during an interview.

It doesn’t make much sense to me either. I know a bunch of great hackers that would never pass a whiteboard test, because they work highly iteratively. With proper test etiquette, this an entirely valid way to write code. Personally, I need google. Make me write code without Google and I’m probably lost, so I wouldn’t want an interview on whiteboard myself (although I’ve never been asked to write any code at all during an interview, so I wouldn’t know for sure).

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