Never had any onsite coding interview other than whiteboard. How are these things going on? What is the process like? Which one of the below is a more closer scenario? 1 - Open up my favorite IDE and code the solution. Run it, debug it. Then e-mail the code to the interviewer. All these happen while interviewer watching you over the shoulder. 2 - It is still like a phone interview. I code in an online platform (Hackerrank etc.), they watch me from their own screen while coding.
Also possible is leaving you in a room with a reqt for an hour or so and return back to review and email for evaluation
I've had both happen, though #1 more often. #2 only seems to be provided in case you are more familiar with your own laptop and key setup, for example.
Depends on the company, some companies use tool like collabedit or similar online editors. Some ask you to write code in google doc. Few send webex link and ask you to share your coding editor. In all cases they watch over when you type.
Some companies do send an email assignment, but that usually doesn’t replace the telephonic interview. It’s just prescreening to save 45mins in a telephonic interview.
Airbnb has Onsite interviews with laptop! No whiteboard
Had my onsites at google on on Google Docs on a 11” Chromebook. Fun times.
Do you recommend it instead of white board. TBH I don't feel comfortable typing on some random laptop. How did your interview go?
It went well, but we wasted time getting onto the Doc. My white board was green so I didn’t have many good options.
Seen mostly #1 but had #2 twice this cycle (Mixpanel and somewhere else, I forget where.). I always bring my laptop just in case with IntelliJ loaded to a hello world project before it goes to sleep I've hit a few places which don't normally do it but where I was allowed after asking. So much easier than whiteboards!
So at most of FANG do they give you a laptop or allow you to use your own? IDE/Google Doc doesn't matter as much. Curious if we should bring our own to the interview.
I always bring my own just in case, but have yet to use one at FANG.
Comcast gave me a MacBook with 4 python scripts that were full of bugs and told me to fix them while they watched.
I hope they were blatant logic bugs and not something easy to miss. I've debugged things focusing on the logic for a couple hours only to realize it's due to some dumb syntax mistake.
But the console error message would have pointed to the syntax error...