How to Increase Your Odds of Success at Whiteboard Coding Interviews
How To Increase Your Odds of Success at Whiteboard Coding Interviews
9 hacks to make your whiteboard coding process easierPhoto by ThisisEngineering RAEng on Unsplash.The interview process for software engineering positions usually involves one 45-minute round of whiteboard coding. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, whiteboard coding literally happened in front of a whiteboard if you were applying to local companies. Nowadays, coding interviews take place over an interactive coding web application such as CoderPad.Even if you’re a mid-to-senior-level developer, a coding interview is always a big challenge. It doesn’t really test your day-to-day job in dealing with frameworks and architectures, but it’s the test of your fundamental knowledge in data structures and algorithms.If you can’t solve a question during a coding interview, there could be three reasons:You’re not lucky. You didn’t get a question you’ve seen before.You didn’t practice. In this case, you can mess up even an easy question.The question is really hard. Even though you’re given a couple of more hours, you won’t be able to solve it.To tackle the last point, you must be an exceptional coder or have been training consistently for a long time. Tackling the first two points is a lot easier.