Raw LLM Responses

I get your point, but I don’t understand why using external resources isn’t accepted. Let’s say I need to shuffle a deck of card. Why would I come with an algorithm that may not be optimized when in the real life if I ever need to do such thing (which is false for 90% of algorithms questions), I’ll use Google and find something like Fisher-Yates in a few seconds, learn how it works, and gain precious time by not reinventing the wheel. I get that the « thinking » process is what you are listening to, but in the real life, do you prefer a guy that will reinvent the wheel for every problem he come across and waste time? I mean, we’re not at school anymore, there is no need to ban the Internet and the calculator when it’s handy and useful. Also, I’m not sure that those whiteboard questions will demonstrate a candidate’s skills to translate a problem into a well structured code. There is stress, time limit, among other things that will be detrimental and can make a great engineer looks like a dumb guy (see OP). It’s a personal opinion, but I will always prefer to ask about real life projects, experience, what problem did you solve and how in those actual projects, etc… than asking pre-made questions the candidate will never have to think about in our work.