[kingofspain]

I hated writing semicolons by hand for a paper & pen coding test I did a long time ago - I spent more time than I really should've in trying make them not look like colons. I find my sense of penmanship is very difficult to overcome (God knows why - my handwriting is atrocious!)

Do whiteboard test really work better than giving someone an editor?

[noarchy]

For me, I think having an editor in front of me gets my mind "in the mode". Heck, I can break a period of procrastination just by firing one up.

I never enjoy writing anything on a whiteboard, be it code or some kind of drawing for a meeting. I'm also plagued by lousy handwriting, and I don't draw particularly well.

One interview scenario that I did not mind, and was editor-free, was one where I was shown Powerpoint slides of code. I was asked to fix what I saw, or determine if anything was really wrong at all.