[sroussey]

A lot of tech interviewers fall back on college experience of the pop quiz. Or what made them feel smart (which is why standardizing such things across managers is important). Really smart engineers that want to relive the A grades from school will try and be clever and undo such standards.

That all said, the correlation between great whiteboard / coding tricks and them being a successful part of a team isn't so great. It's not their job to code short programs under pressure of being watched. It's a proxy. There are better ways.