[creato]

> Thank you for writing this post. Whiteboard code interviews get a lot of hate on HN and I suspect that folks who have come to rely on them for part of their hiring signal have simply stopped posting.

It seems like there's a population of engineers that is perpetually interviewing. I think the people that post significantly about this are people that are struggling with frequent interviews, and correctly or not, lash out at whiteboarding as why they are having trouble.

Maybe there's some large pool of otherwise qualified people that just can't pass interviews and are being passed over because of it, but I really doubt this is significant.

My personal opinion: I don't mind white board interviews. I'd do a take home test, but I would prefer a traditional interview. And being a short term contractor (also comes up frequently in these threads) as an interview process is obviously impractical.

[bfung]

The pay in software engineering, esp. in the bay area, is very high. Companies here never have enough engineers for one reason or other - the situation makes current engineers always looking for higher pay regardless of their skill level, and people not in the industry wanting to be in the high pay field.