I had to share my screen with 2 interviewers as they gave me directions to code a card game in JavaScript. It wasn't even supposed to run, they just wanted to see how I write code. I wasn't familiar with the card game and had to keep asking them for instructions on how to play and I hesitated to stay silent for too long because they wanted to know what I was doing and why I was doing it.
This kind of interview doesn't allow a developer to struggle in my opinion. I'm going to have instances I need to Google something or just write down my thoughts on paper and that wasn't encouraged.
Funny story I was once on the other side of this! I was asking people to code a game of blackjack, and the third candidate had never played the game. For that interview I just stopped and changed the premise, but before that I hadn't really thought about how culturally specific some of my questions and puzzles were.
I'm so glad I don't have to participate in interviews like that anymore!
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I had to share my screen with 2 interviewers as they gave me directions to code a card game in JavaScript. It wasn't even supposed to run, they just wanted to see how I write code. I wasn't familiar with the card game and had to keep asking them for instructions on how to play and I hesitated to stay silent for too long because they wanted to know what I was doing and why I was doing it.
This kind of interview doesn't allow a developer to struggle in my opinion. I'm going to have instances I need to Google something or just write down my thoughts on paper and that wasn't encouraged.
Funny story I was once on the other side of this! I was asking people to code a game of blackjack, and the third candidate had never played the game. For that interview I just stopped and changed the premise, but before that I hadn't really thought about how culturally specific some of my questions and puzzles were.
I'm so glad I don't have to participate in interviews like that anymore!