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Haha - whiteboard firing squad - I like that. Thank you for the offer to do a trial interview. I really appreciate that! Let me see how this week interviews go, and I may take you up on that.

As opposed to failing 2 out of 2 whiteboard interviews, the "live coding" sessions have been a mixed experience for me. It often works just fine if I'm given a clearly defined problem at the beginning of the interview and enough time to quietly think about it. It does not work very well when I'm asked behavioral questions first, coding session is limited to 20 minutes, problem keeps evolving and interviewer comes across impatient or in a rush. Solving a LeetCode/HackerRank hard problem within an hour also does not work for me. But most companies in my experience have been more reasonable than that so far.

Btw, TripleByte (no affiliation) does a much better job at technical screens in my opinion than the rest of the companies I tried so far. I wish more companies would use them.