Homework assignments suck. I was once asked to basically create a clone of Yelp in a week (during which I was working full time). I would rather take a full day off and go interview on whiteboards - come at me, algorithms. What I do not have time for, is setting up an entirely new project and work on it in my space time to impress one dude that will be useless in a few days.
Edit: Why are people scared of whiteboards interviews so much? Don't you use them every day to map thoughts out, working with your colleagues etc etc? I'm not saying some questions are (used to be) absurd - the Google/MSFT manhole thing. But why is it so scary to talk about a linked list, a graph traversal algorithm etc? Most of this is stuff that's taught in basic CS classes.
Sorry to sound condescending but it almost feels like that as technology spreads and more and more people come into the field who haven't actually studied proper CS, they're blaming the system instead of trying to learn.
Edit: Why are people scared of whiteboards interviews so much? Don't you use them every day to map thoughts out, working with your colleagues etc etc? I'm not saying some questions are (used to be) absurd - the Google/MSFT manhole thing. But why is it so scary to talk about a linked list, a graph traversal algorithm etc? Most of this is stuff that's taught in basic CS classes.
Sorry to sound condescending but it almost feels like that as technology spreads and more and more people come into the field who haven't actually studied proper CS, they're blaming the system instead of trying to learn.