[Rhapso]

Do I? yes. I also teach my students that the goal of an interview is to convince the interviewer you are a good candidate, not to answer the questions correctly. Sometimes they correlate. Give the customer what they need not what they asked for.

Do I see others doing so? sadly no.

I feel like a lot of the replies to my comment didn't read to the end, I agree the implementation is bad. The whiteboard just isn't actually the problem. The interviewers are.

Unless they change mentality to "did this candidate show me the skills i am looking for" instead of "did they solve puzzle" the method doesn't matter.

[Apocryphon]

The replies are addressing the reality of the interview landscape that fails to live up to your theory of how whiteboarding interviews should be.

It's all well and good that you and other "wise interviewer" commenters on HN actually grok what the point of interviews are, but you are unicorns in the landscape.

[Rhapso]

I don't think you made it to the last paragraph either:

> I know many interviewers also didn't get it, and it became just "do you know the trick to my puzzle". That pattern of failure is a good reason to deprecate white board interviews, not "I don't write on a whiteboard when i program in real life".

[Apocryphon]

Nope, it was directed at your last paragraph.