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    Colm MacCárthaigh‏ @colmmacc 10 Jun 2019
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    Has anyone thought of doing live whiteboard coding sessions at conferences? I'd love to see the most tenured, but also sarcastic and cutting, engineers put through a bullshit technical interview on stage, as performance art and parody of the form.

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      1. Richard Larson‏ @richarddlarson 10 Jun 2019
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        Someone could write that up as a play. A tragedy in three acts: Act 1: The resumé review and phone screening. Act 2: The interview, in all it's horrific glory. Act 3: Dead silence as the perfect candidate tries in vain to find out why the company won't call them back.

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      2. Marc Brooker‏ @MarcJBrooker 10 Jun 2019
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        I frequently defend whiteboard coding as an interview practice. I’d be happy to live code on a whiteboard in public to defend that view (and, more usefully, to try show what separates a good whiteboard coding exercise from a bad one).

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      3. Kevin Cantú‏ @killerswan 10 Jun 2019
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        yeah, as another occasional defender of some aspects of the form, that could be fun

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      1. Abby Fuller‏ @abbyfuller 10 Jun 2019
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        Should do this.

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      2. DianaOfPortland‏ @DianaOfPortland 11 Jun 2019
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        In the earlier days of the @AgileAlliance conf, through ~2008, there was often a “pairing tournament” where several pairs of experienced programmers had a friendly competition while audience watched. @JoshuaKerievsky might remember more about how it worked.

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      3. Joshua Kerievsky‏ @JoshuaKerievsky 11 Jun 2019
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        Yes. We called it Programming with the Stars, modeled after Dancing with the Stars. It included judges and pairs competing to win the competition.

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      2. Dov Murik‏ @dubek 10 Jun 2019
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        Must read: @aphyrr 's three-part series, starting here: https://aphyr.com/posts/340-reversing-the-technical-interview …

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        sorry, the correct handle is @aphyr .

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      1. Jens Roland‏ @jensroland 11 Jun 2019
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        Great idea! Or how about an ‘are you smarter than a CS undergrad’ session, pitting 25+ year veterans against kids who just stepped out of an algorithms class; the questions would all be big-O complexity and fizzbuzz.

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      2. Dallas DeMarr‏ @Digi_Commodore 10 Jun 2019
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        I think I would be perfect to play the young manager with 3 years experience who fell upward and thinks they're \$DIETY's gift to the interview process, and treats the whiteboard as if it were imported from Delphi.

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      3. Simon Middlemiss‏ @SimonMiddlemiss 10 Jun 2019
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        Borland?

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