There are very few systems that will actually lose a company millions of dollars every few minutes of downtime.
I have done high stakes production troubleshooting many times. It’s not remotely the same as an interview—not even in the same ballpark. Everyone of those eyes wants you to succeed and will help you in any way they can. And if they aren’t being helpful, I politely tell them I’ll solve it faster if I can focus without people looking over my shoulder.
The fake adversarial system created by coding interviews is why I prefer pair programming with a candidate on a novel problem.
I have done high stakes production troubleshooting many times. It’s not remotely the same as an interview—not even in the same ballpark. Everyone of those eyes wants you to succeed and will help you in any way they can. And if they aren’t being helpful, I politely tell them I’ll solve it faster if I can focus without people looking over my shoulder.
The fake adversarial system created by coding interviews is why I prefer pair programming with a candidate on a novel problem.