Hiring without whiteboards
What'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 "implement a linked list" or "write quicksort" but basic "You have two arrays - find if a number exists in both arrays" 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't write some simple code unaided, then I don't want to work with them. I was a copy-paste programmer once too.