[CSSer]

My current position’s interview went exactly as you described in the latter half of your comment. Sometime later after I was hired I asked why I wasn’t really thoroughly whiteboarded. My boss replied, “All I needed to know was that you had critical thinking skills and that you could solve problems. I was whiteboarded and I hated it. I remember walking away from the experience feeling like it said nothing about me,” and there was scarcely a single question he had asked me during the interview that I could give him a straightforward answer to. Almost every answer I gave him began with or included some version of, “Well, it depends. What about x?”