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Unknown said...

I just want to question the obsession with writing code on a whiteboard. Nobody ever writes code on a whiteboard (except maybe to very roughly show some structure). That's what computers, with nice text editors, and syntax highlighting are for. Everybody types (and certainly edits) faster than they can write on a whiteboard. I'd rather write code in notepad than on a whiteboard. Give your interviewees a shot at writing code on an actual computer, you know, like what they would actually do on their job. As a bonus that makes it really easy for you to test if the code really works.

There's a lot of good stuff in this post though. I enjoyed it.

Tim

Mar 13, 2008, 3:21:00 PM

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