[munchbunny]

> Whiteboard coding interviews are one thing that I have to go out of my way to practice for and get better at over time when interviewing (ie over the course of a few failed interviews). I don’t feel more skilled or smarter by the end of the set of interviews, but I inevitably do better at these kinds of problems.

You have a good point, I noticed this about myself as well. However, I don't think whiteboard interviews are special in that regard. I noticed that I got noticeably better at the "sit down and code me a simple web API endpoint" interview, and I got noticeably better at the systems design interview, and so on.

I do think that whiteboard interviews tend to lean very algorithm-heavy, which doesn't reflect the role's actual day to day. And practicing algorithm interviews really does feel like an inefficient use of time unless your role truly demands algorithmic proficiency (like if you're a graphics dev).