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Most FAANG companies do actual coding now instead of whiteboarding :(

Why the unhappy face? Is this considered a bad trend? I'm personally way better at online coding sessions than whiteboarding.

Jotting down an algorithm and talking about complexity is probably easier than implementing it?

A coding session usually implies something unrelated to algorithms. Whiteboarding is usually much more than "jotting down an algorithm".

Great to know, an editor is much easier than a whiteboard

I'd much prefer it rather than scribbling in a whiteboard with an eraser that doesn't work and trying to put together the solution

Whiteboard does work for higher level discussions, not for anything resembling code

Lest they ask you to whiteboard FizzBuzz, that makes me want to leave the interview immediately.

I’ve had a couple of interviews where I was asked to either whiteboard FizzBuzz, or answer 00s era Google brain teasers. From a big company that would be a swift exit from the interview process for me, but in both cases it happened to me I was interviewing as the first engineer at startups - I did the tasks, and then had a conversation about how if I were hired I’d remove them from the interview process.

In both cases I got the job, then stuck around for 5+ years, so I’m going to say it worked out ;)

Because their interview questions were silly?

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