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by ivanche 2952 days ago
"When done correctly" is the key here. Alas, in my experience I was usually heavily penalized if I kept my mouth shut for as little as 15-20 seconds because interviewer "couldn't see my thought process". At the same time expecting from me to write syntactically and semantically correct, industrial strength bug-free code with optimum space and time performance for a problem I never ever encountered with the interviewer "helpfully" distracting me 4-5 times a minute.