A working programmer can fail to write bubble sort on a whiteboard and look code up on the internet all the time; riddles are not the job.

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• You cannot really understand the code you write unless you are also the one operating it. CMCharity Majors12 Aug 2026
• Cheating tools have pushed Google back to in-person interviews, where somebody watches you code and you cannot cheat your way through it. NENeetCode24 Jun 2026
• It may be foolish to interview a programmer without looking at their code first. JAJeff Atwood26 Feb 2007
• Reading code and writing code are separate skills, and being able to read a language is no evidence you could write it. THThePrimeagen22 Mar 2025
• Google turned down the author of Homebrew, software 90% of its engineers use, because he could not invert a binary tree on a whiteboard. MHMax Howell10 Jun 2015

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