Do you guys use your computer to take notes and do calcs during zoom case interviews?

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I've actually used it as an opportunity to have them show their screen and set it up in Excel. I'm less concerned with mental math and more concerned with how can they structure a problem.

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I invited an interviewee to use Excel and screenshare if they wanted to and they thought I was crazy.

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I like this approach. Do I care if they can do it in their head? Or do I care if they can get to the correct answer quickly with the tools that we’ll give them and expect them to use in their everyday work?

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If I catch you using computer or calculator on our cases, which is not allowed, it’s an automatic turn down. I’ve caught two people this year (yes, both were told that calcs weren’t allowed at start of interview).

Be sure you know the guidelines and agree with your interviewer before doing anything which might violate interview terms.

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@McK1 - It's the structure itself. You're hiring people who will be expected to use the full arsenal of tools at their disposal, of which a calculator and a notebook are the least of them, yet you want to structure an interview to confirm whether or not they can perform grade school math in public.

It's unrealistic and a relic of an era that has long since left us behind.

Yes, I understand that there is the school of thought that says that this is a good way of evaluating innate talent under pressure, but we're not calculating applied ballistics from a firebase here, we're building client deliverables from a conference room. It's artificial and serves only to build a facade of mystique around the interview process.

Maybe this plays well with campus hires telling stories around the Student Union but as a functional adult with a resume longer than 1 job, this makes no sense to me.

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