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by recursive 2955 days ago
There are many things you can do with a whiteboard other than inverting binary trees. You're thinking too narrowly.
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Obviously, but I was specifically referring to the typical algorithm oriented whiteboard questions found at major tech company interviews. Working a real world problem on a whiteboard I see no issue with.
This whole post is about companies that "don't whiteboard". Not companies that "only whiteboard for real world problems".