"Part of working at a large company is being able to be tactful and wade through the bullshit" ^ This may be the only thing a whiteboard test is actually good for.
And how often have you had to write bubble sorts on the job? Or tackle coding problems without a computer?
There are 3 main problems with the whiteboard tech interview. 1. It's not actually correlated to job performance. Google (and others) have done tons of studies on this, and the summary was basically, "Yeah, it's…
"Part of working at a large company is being able to be tactful and wade through the bullshit" ^ This may be the only thing a whiteboard test is actually good for.
And how often have you had to write bubble sorts on the job? Or tackle coding problems without a computer?
There are 3 main problems with the whiteboard tech interview. 1. It's not actually correlated to job performance. Google (and others) have done tons of studies on this, and the summary was basically, "Yeah, it's…