Can you use laptop in technical interview?
Apr 29, 2019
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In another post about getting offer from Google, the OP there mentions they used laptop in lieu of whiteboarding.
This has a ton of advantages, one being speed. It IS a timed interview after all.
Secondly being auto-complete, javadocs, quick peek at a until class to get the appropriate usage of a helper method.
I wouldn’t advise going all the way and making it runnable, and the disadvantage being if you’re writing any degree of pseudo code or short handing anything you’ll get the dreaded “red error underline”.
My question though is, I feel a lot of people would prefer this and has more advantages, namely cranking out the code faster. Is this a thing? Do most interviewers allow this. Not just for FAANG but elsewhere too?
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