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Discussion on: The Job Interview Battle!

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Frank Carr

I actually had a good whiteboarding session in an interview last week. Unlike other, artificial, whiteboarding exercises like you described in your blog article, I was asked to draw out and describe a web services application I had written. Since I drew upon knowledge I had, it was an easy, comfortable, task as compared to annoying exercises like Fibonacci numbers and such.

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Jason C. McDonald

I absolutely agree with that style of "whiteboarding". I have candidates write some code before the interview (they have a week on the challenge), and then they send it for us to review 24-hours before the final interview. Then, during the interview, I have them make a change or fix a bug in their own code. It works phenomenally well.