Thanks for your support. The reason I mention "on a white board, no syntax errors, compilable" is because I've been dinged at the whiteboard for these silly reasons. No shit ! And Gayle Laakmann, author of "Cracking the Coding Interview" actually says it's important to write nearly perfect code at the whiteboard.
How do you know you were dinged for these silly reasons? Did they actually tell you that?
I wouldn't be surprised if there are programmers out there who ding candidates for silly reasons like that, but in my experience they are the minority.
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Thanks for your support. The reason I mention "on a white board, no syntax errors, compilable" is because I've been dinged at the whiteboard for these silly reasons. No shit ! And Gayle Laakmann, author of "Cracking the Coding Interview" actually says it's important to write nearly perfect code at the whiteboard.
How do you know you were dinged for these silly reasons? Did they actually tell you that?
I wouldn't be surprised if there are programmers out there who ding candidates for silly reasons like that, but in my experience they are the minority.
Good point. Can't say for certain. Perhaps you're right -- because, no, they didn't actually tell me that. I just assumed...