[nunez]

The whiteboarding questions are designed to test (a) whether people actually know how to code or whether they are crippled by their IDE for everything and (b) whether they can think through why they write the code that they write instead of using whatever code they can find to get to a solution.

The problem with whiteboarding (for me) is that it optimizes for people who are good at studying for and passing tests instead of people who are actually good for the job, which, ultimately, makes it a suboptimal determinant of how well the candidate will perform once they are hired.

I think that whiteboarding + delving into past experience is a great combination for screening. You can't bullshit experience.

[greatpostman]

This isn’t true. They test for memorization, willingness to study computer science at length, and if the above two aren’t present, intelligence