[bcyn]

How so? Classes are extremely verbose IMO, which is the last thing I'd want in a white board interview.

[sirclueless]

As someone who occasionally watches competitive programming for fun (and competitive programming is basically competitive whiteboard interviewing) it gives me quite a bit of perverse pleasure that even in languages with great first-class class and object support the norm is to write functions that operate on global variables.

[analognoise]

Where do you go to watch competitive programming? That sounds like it might help with Leetcode-style bullshit.