whiteboarding is not evil. We stretched its use beyond limits during tech interviews. If you are a competent engineer and given a problem and whiteboard you should be able to paint a decent picture of your skills and capabilities. The problem is that many interviewers are too inexperienced to judge other candidates and mistake software engineering to just coding.
I think that the point whiteboarding is to prove that somebody can study and communicate with a whiteboard. Everybody knows that it's coming so it shouldn't be a surprise which means that you can study for it. reviewing this process is not difficult.
I tend to believe that it's not very representative of somebody's coding skills but it can be very representative of somebody's ability to adapt to different communication platforms.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 17.0 ms ] threadI tend to believe that it's not very representative of somebody's coding skills but it can be very representative of somebody's ability to adapt to different communication platforms.