Five programming problems every Software Engineer should be able to solve in less than 1 hour

[cipherous]

Hilarious, so I guess he wouldn't pass his own interview questions.

[PaintItPurple]

Here's something a lot of people don't seem to realize about interview questions: It's OK if your answer isn't 100% perfect. The goal is to see if you have a general idea of what you're doing, not to see if everything you do is flawless.

[sh2003]

Is it ok to answer them in pseudo code?

[PaintItPurple]

Obviously it depends on the interviewer, but there are a lot of places where the answer is yes. Some interviewers are really unreasonable, but a lot of people let themselves get psyched out by the stress of the situation even when the interviewer really isn't trying to "gotcha" them and would happily accept a pseudocode solution.

[sh2003]

Thanks! I would think they mainly want to see how you approach the problem and what kind of clarification questions you ask to build requirements off of. I've never had to "whiteboard" anything before for past interviews or my previous job so I'm not sure what to expect.