Because these problems can have some subtleties that are hard to get right in a high-pressure environment. Some interviewers will completely write you off for small mistakes.
That sounds interesting! Do you have any examples?
I would have thought that if you actually needed people to perform under pressure, you would design your test explicitly around that, instead of using “comfort with the whiteboard” as a proxy...
I would have thought that if you actually needed people to perform under pressure, you would design your test explicitly around that, instead of using “comfort with the whiteboard” as a proxy...