Hiring without whiteboards
What&#x27;s with all the whiteboard backlash? I ask simple questions and expect people to be able to write code unaided to express their idea. Not &quot;implement a linked list&quot; or &quot;write quicksort&quot; but basic &quot;You have two arrays - find if a number exists in both arrays&quot; sort of thing, primarily to reason about runtime complexity, and to make sure they can actually write code.<p>If you tell a candidate to prepare, they should be able to come in and do this. If they can&#x27;t write some simple code unaided, then I don&#x27;t want to work with them. I was a copy-paste programmer once too.