[jasonlotito]

> One way I've practiced "thinking out loud" is to get a white board and pretend you're a professor.

This.

I'd never done "whiteboard testing," and I still hate it, but a lot of people use it apparently. I remember the first time having to do it, and I was so focused on the white board, and having my back turned to the interviewer, and just the odd sensation of everything (not to mention very little sleep the night before) that I was drawing blanks on the most basic of questions.

[sigjuice]

Don't even get me started on the practice of writing code on the whiteboard. Who even does that in real life? By the time, a line of code I wrote on the board extends to the right, I forget what I have written on the left. Is it too hard to provide a fraking computer to type on?

[lutorm]

I guess here's one advantage of trying to get a job coming out of academia: We do that kind of whiteboard discussions all the time. I'm actually surprised that you wouldn't have done this ever at a normal job either. I mean, how do you hash things out with your coworkers?

[jasonlotito]

There is a big difference between hashing things out with coworkers and trying to write that will run without a typo. I have no problem using a white board, and throwing up examples, etc. But actually writing out variable declarations, assignments, etc?