[PopeDotNinja]

Here's the problem with whiteboard interviewing. You can't see how I think. It's just not possible. I'm trapped in a box with a strange person who is staring at me & asking me really invasive questions. If you wanna know whether or not I know about optimistic locking, just ask me "do to know about optimistic locking well?". If I do, ask me an optimistic locking question of modest difficulty. If I don't, don't spend an hour trying to get me to move in that direction and see if I figure it out. I'm just gonna think you're trying to show off how smart and unprepared you were.

[evilolive]

I take drugs to do interviews. Modafinil. It gets me a little bit jittery and all over the place. But programmers tend to like that nervous energy

There is just no way for me to stay on point for all of four or five hours of successive grilling. It's a lot more exhausting than thinking about anything on my own