Ask HN: Can engineers from Google or Facebook solve whiteboard questions easily?
I work at Google and no it&#x27;s not easy for us either. I&#x27;ve heard many of my coworkers joke that if they went through the interview process again they&#x27;d probably fail.<p>That said I see two kinds of interviewers.  One kind (the good kind) takes a medium difficulty question and uses it to explore the candidate&#x27;s coding, algorithms, communication, and problem solving skills.<p>The other kind has a super hard question with a single algorithmic solution that tells you nothing about what kind of engineer the person would be.  This kind of interviewer takes too much pleasure in being a gatekeeper to Google.