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Sure, just do whiteboard coding of a difficult algorithm because it replicates actual coding conditions quite nicely </snark> I'd much rather see what a candidate can come up with while working at their leisure, using their favorite IDE, googling syntax and other questions, testing, and having time to refactor than see what they will come up with on the fly, under pressure, without any tools available to them.



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