[pkteison]

I find it weird that the responses seem to draw a distinction between whiteboards and coderpad. The assumption seems to be that the problem making the whole thing stressful and unnatural was the communication medium and not the fact that it's a super time compressed artificial problem with many unstated considerations and a tremendously outsized influence on the rest of your life, no pressure, just talk through everything exactly like you never do.

Most of the problem seems to me fundamentally unaddressable without verifiable portfolios, but those have their own problems. Even in industries where portfolios are standard, plagiarism is a thing - how do you get the verifiable part? I want to hire someone great, not just someone who was on the same team as someone great.

[jpindar]

Even just coding on a computer with the screen cast up on a big monitor or projector would be a vast improvement over literally writing on a physical white board.