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by mikestew 3957 days ago
" For my interview, I spent a day at Google headquarters in Mountain View solving problems on a white board."

2015, with a laptop in every lap and a large screen/projector in every conference room, and we're still scribbling code on a whiteboard at one of the largest software companies in the world.

This might have been fine twenty, fifteen years ago when even at Microsoft my machine was a 30 lb. tower under my desk, and I had a 14" CRT monitor. Even if you can't reserve a conference room for your interview, you can use one of the 22-27" monitors on your desk. Anything is better than scribbling and correcting code on a whiteboard like a monkey performing tricks.