On: How Google Hires

[tptacek]

That is true of a surprising number of concrete-seeming programming questions, too, which is another reason you should standardize your questions.

[QuercusMax → tptacek]

I know Google has interviewers copy down character-for-character what is written on the whiteboard for their whiteboard programming questions. Presumably this is so that their hiring committees can dispassionately review what the candidate produced, instead of relying on the interviewer to report success or failure.

[raverbashing → tptacek]

Yes, but for something slightly more complex than a "fixed answer" problem I would expect some flexibility in the answer.

(Especially because of limited time in an interview and the candidate is under pressure)