[gamma3]

I've interviewed engineers on computer science problems on a whiteboard and those who did great turned out to do great on the actual job.

That's a one way implication. It is possible there are people who do poorly on coding interviews but great on the job.

Whiteboard coding is simply a quick test that has few false positives in my experience (around 40 interviews).

[PunchTornado]

many assumptions, few facts

[yakshaving_jgt]

There are few facts to make the case in either direction, so the anecdotes are valuable.

Of course it's a bit of a shame that the one comment not subject to HN groupthink is [predictably] all the way at the bottom of the page.