littleguru wrote:It affected me a lot when doing the internship interviews for Microsoft last year... I'm so used to it and when I don't know exactly the name of something I just start to type it and can select it from there.
Before doing a next interview I'll look more precisely at the classes that might get asked! You know the problem was that I didn't always remember all the methods and properties. I often only browse through the shown methods to see if one would fit my needs. Now I couldn't do that when I only had the whiteboard and nothing else.
Does this not show that the whiteboard interview part should focus on abstraction and design? With these excellent development tools we have today, the exact knowledge of a library and their objects, methods, properties and what not, is not that important.
Of course, knowing the library / framework is a good thing, but maybe not necessary to know by heart.
Anyway, the libraries are getting really large (or have been for a while), so it is more important to know the tool and the documentation.
And for those proposing notepad as a development tool, I would say you are left behind by the software development evolution.
