Pocket Gems Software Developer interview questions

I just resume dropped on my school's career services page and got a very prompt response to schedule a first round interview. That said, the interview itself was much more "code monkey"-ish than I expected. In most other interviews I've had, interviewers care more about your thought process than your ability to write syntactically correct code, but here they expected it to compile and run. It's not necessarily a bad thing, just not at all what I expected so my usual "write pseudocode for functions I don't know the exact name of" approach didn't work, and I had to rely on the interviewer to fill in the syntax blanks. In the end, I think this is what doomed me because while I eventually got the desired output, it took a fair amount of trial and error with respect to syntax, and I was rejected almost immediately after the interview (quite literally within five minutes). My advice would be to pick a language and know it well.