[jkoudys]

I agree, and as an employer I find a happy medium is to test on a whiteboard, but be completely okay writing filler, a comment saying "code for this goes here", etc. So long as they're building the correct general approach, that's all I need to see.

Whiteboard interviews where the interviewer says "it's actually `.toLowerCase()`, not `.lowerCase()`, you fool!", or "oops! You forgot to `position: relative;` the containing element that you `position: absolute;`d below!". you're not testing anything useful. Maybe if we were still coding everything on punchcards and using massive user manuals, but docking applicants for things their editor would highlight or one ctrl-r on the page would find is ridiculous.