> It’s vastly preferable to asking someone to write code with a fat marker pen whilst standing up in a tiny conference room.
Or, you know, just use a whiteboard in the interview for the same purpose you use it in meetings:
- not at all
- for high level algorithmic descriptions, data flow or architecture sketching
(Of course, the UML being demonized is a bit of a misfortune because now boxes and arrows can mean anything, but hey, better than having a visual language that has been developed by a bunch of old CIS White males, according to tech diversity Twitter.)
Or, you know, just use a whiteboard in the interview for the same purpose you use it in meetings:
- not at all
- for high level algorithmic descriptions, data flow or architecture sketching
(Of course, the UML being demonized is a bit of a misfortune because now boxes and arrows can mean anything, but hey, better than having a visual language that has been developed by a bunch of old CIS White males, according to tech diversity Twitter.)