Whiteboard Interview Advice

Communicate!

we are all human with equal communication rights, don’t bother to talk though the whole process. we even can communicate before and after the interview in order to get a better result.

• 1, restate the question to make sure you understand the questions
• 2, ask for confirmations or corrections
• 3, ask the edge cases of your questions to clear your target range.
• 4, take the advantage of asking about the test cases to 1) show profession and 2) confirm your solving plan
• 5, communicate your pseudocode. potentially get help/suggestions of your pseudo coding.
• 6, communication your code, if it’s good?
• 7, ask help while stuck.

7 Tips to ace a programming interview

• 1, Take a few minutes: to make it ready, for your thinking process, for preparing your questions
• 2, write down your thought process generally. for you to track the potential stuck to come
• 3, white pseudocode first, pseudocode can make your focus on the code logic and not disturbed by code grammar.
• 4, don’t chase perfect. timing your interview process, focus on the big and give up the little if necessary.
• 5, Be humble.
• 6, prepared before the interview.
• 7, summary your solutions to do the makeup.