How much whiteboard coding do you do once you are hired? I'm not talking design but actually writing a sort algo with all the curlies in the right place, on a whitebaord?
Not much, maybe once a month. One thing I vaguely recall is the sequence and error handling of some service caching, writing to a database, and putting a message on a queue. Obviously it wasn't about "curlies in the right place". And as mentioned, it wasn't recently, it was about 3 years ago now - the most recent team I work with is very small and half remote.
I still think there are things that are good to be able to do, even if you don't use them regularly. As a bad metaphor, swimmers do some dry-land training...
Do interviewers actually really care about the curlies being in the right place? I've never interviewed in the US, but certainly every interview I've had in Europe that required whiteboard coding only required essentially pseudo-code that looked more or less like the target language.
I still think there are things that are good to be able to do, even if you don't use them regularly. As a bad metaphor, swimmers do some dry-land training...