It hurts when you say legacy companies make you write code in interviews :) Cos during interviews I ask people to write some code to solve the problem, I emphasise that it need not be dependent on any specific language. I encourage them to write pseudocode or atleast the logic for given problem or algorithm. I believe if you can't solve a problem(atleast to some extent) on a paper, you will spend many hours on screen!
In my prev org, we used to do a lot of whiteboarding, during interviews as well as in the project.
Lol. Sorry to hurt you. I completely understand that problem solving skills are very important. Without analytical and logical thinking skills, it is definitely not easy for anyone to survive as a developer.
But we had a practice here in my company itself where vague written test to write programs were given without even testing their analytical and logical skills. Anyone who can memorize the code can get through the test but on floor they will struggle.
I completely agree that we can give the candidates some technical questions or even ask them to write simple programs but asking them questions only on the syntax part and rejecting them just because they didn't have the syntax on their finger tips is something that is changing nowadays. Especially with microservices and front end development and all, the developers are given full freedom to write code in any language they want.
That's how we are transforming.
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