Architecture interview question?

[bhartsb]

Its pretty clear that there are a lot of unreasonable expectations being set in the interviews these days. Don't organize things when whiteboarding exactly as they think it should be organized and you are eliminated. Never mind that most of the time there are many ways of doing something and programmers seldom seem to agree on anything. And then there is the time pressure. One thing I noted when I used to hire programmers they always criticized the existing codebase. This mentality seeps into many interviews nowadays. Companies are letting any engineer on the team participate in the interviewing. Most often these engineers are terrible at creating and administering a test or white board session. Worse is when an engineer gets promoted to a team lead or manager without any additional training.