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by T-R 5558 days ago
I sometimes just completely fail to function at a whiteboard. I've choked to comedic proportions on problems I'd solved easily only a few days before. There's not a doubt in my mind that my resume's been thrown in the "Non-programming programmer" pile due to my stage fright at least once. I can certainly sympathize with the need for a low false-positive rate, but as a candidate I can't help but wish that overcoming stage fright wasn't also such a prerequisite for working with good programmers.