[ng12]

There's more to judging a candidate than whether they learned the material. A mastery of CS material does not make a candidate perfect -- I'm still very interested in their problem solving skills and their ability to communicate. For all the problems with whiteboarding they're still the best way to test for those attributes.

[zerr]

It's not about the medium (whiteboard or similar) but the kind of questions/problems you ask. When you have a CRUD app developer opening and you're asking the candidate to come up with Knuth-Morris-Pratt efficient substring search algorithm on spot, whereas it took months of research for Knuth, Morris and Pratt...