Before the Interview: Set Your Google Docs Preferences Use these settings to turn Google Docs into a passable development environment for your interview.
Starting half of your lines of code with the word var and immediately watching Google Docs turn that into Var every time, for an hour-long interview, is enough to drive any developer mad.
Unfortunately, since Google Docs is generally not used for writing code, its default settings aren’t ideal for technical interviews. The company will send a link to a document, and during the phone interview, you will write code in that doc as your interviewer watches. One common way companies conduct these interviews is using Google Docs. As a candidate in the technical hiring process, you will probably talk to companies who want to assess your technical abilities remotely before bringing you to onsite interviews.
