Writing Code On Whiteboards Is Hard

Interviewing for technical positions at Microsoft: Part 1

Microsoft JobsBlog — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:17:29 GMT

I think this is the post that you have all been waiting for! Yup, I finally got to it and now you are about to embark on the adventure of what a typical interview day is like at Microsoft. While these are our thoughts on what you need to do to be prepared,

Writing Code on a Whiteboard

Microsoft JobsBlog — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:16:09 GMT

Gosh - I was so wrapped up in The Apprentice that I didn’t have a chance to post on the in person interviews at Microsoft! Excuses, excuses, excuses.... I do have a good pointer for those that are interested in the SDE and SDE in Test positions

Interviewing for technical positions at Microsoft: Part 1

Microsoft JobsBlog — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:24:20 GMT

Writing Code on a Whiteboard

Microsoft JobsBlog — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:46:19 GMT

Interviewing for technical positions at Microsoft: Part 1

Microsoft's JobsBlog — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:52:30 GMT

I think this is the post that you have all been waiting for! Yup, I finally got to it and now you are

Writing Code on a Whiteboard

Microsoft's JobsBlog — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:47:43 GMT

Gosh - I was so wrapped up in The Apprentice that I didn’t have a chance to post on the in person

How Not To Teach Recursion

Fabulous Adventures In Coding — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:39:55 GMT

A Joel On Software reader asked the other day for examples of recursive functions other than old chestnuts

re: Writing Code On Whiteboards Is Hard

abhidotnet — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 21:56:54 GMT

Hi Eric,

Thanks for all the excellent advice and pointers on whiteboarding .

The discussions revolving around white boarding is what brought me here.

I couldn't agree more with your statement -

" Many devs seem to have this crazy idea that its writing the code that's the hard part. Writing code is easy; knowing what code to write to solve a customer problem is hard.".

The crux of any software development work is to understand the problem, think through it before attempting to write a SINGLE line of code.

I'm not sure about other devs. but at least at my end I find it a little nerve wracking(almost like deer and headlights) to white board with the pressure of an interviewer leaning over my shoulder.

Do you have any tips to get over this phobia and or how to keep your calm during white boarding ?

I'm interviewing for an SDE/T position soon. Any tips/ guidance will be much appreciated.

Thanks.

Abhijeet

P.S. You webcast on type inference in LINQ was very insightful

re: Writing Code On Whiteboards Is Hard

Rana Naveed Khalid — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:45:32 GMT

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Rana Naveed Khalid

Pakistan

re: Writing Code On Whiteboards Is Hard

Biswajit Jena — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 09:10:47 GMT

Hi All,

I am not sure, if this is the right forum. Recently, I was recommended for second round interview with Microsoft IT for business analyst position. I browsed through website for some information on responsibilities of a BA, questions I can expect in interview and so on. Didnt get any clue.

May I request you all, if anyone know can point me to the right place to search for ?

I really need your help.

Thanks

Biswajit Jena