[muse900]

Companies differ, and what they are asking of software engineers.

I was working with a brilliant guy in the same company. He was very technical and you could say that easily he was programming all day long non stop. His intelligence and technical expertise amazed me. Thing is he wasn't good with people skills, hence he wouldn't fit the company I am currently working for.

There are companies that hire devs to solve a problem and give them time, space etc to go all hardcore. Then again there are companies that require from their dev's to be able to communicate with the rest of the team, and take part on meaningful theory-crafting meetings.

So neither whiteboarding, nor tell me a story question is wrong.

I just find it that whiteboarding difficult questions should be asked from the very technical jobs, and I've found whiteboarding difficult questions when interviewing for a company that wants to move out of wordpress to their own website in angular.

[hasenj]

> It could be that this technique favors people good at telling stories.

It does, but then again, maybe that's what they're going for (even if subconsciously).