[dominotw]

This has been my experience interviewing past couple of months . I have over a decade of fulltime experience. I still had to do tons of these whiteboard/algorithm interviews. And not its not just clueless companies doing them, everyone from google to local software consulting show down the street doing this.

[booleandilemma]

If you have a high paying position that doesn’t require a license or certification to work in then you’re going to attract a lot of frauds, so these kinds of interviews are necessary.

Doctors need a license, and even so, you still hear about people who are found out to be frauds years later.

If software development didn’t have technical interviews the field would be full of people who wouldn’t know anything about programming, but who would call themselves developers anyway.