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And here's the rub: Running an interview this way is hard to do RIGHT. The questions have to be tractable for the given time, not too oblivious that the candidate blows through them, not too domain-specific that the interviewer ends up giving a lecture to education the interviewee on the domain. Then there's the proctoring of the question.

Show of hands here: Who here has worked a companies where they used white boarding as part of their process? Did any of the following happen?

* Interviewers asked pet questions instead of using a vetted list of questions * Interviewers never tried any of the questions in interview conditions * Interviewers were never trained/practiced giving these sorts of interviews * Random developers were pulled into interviews to proctor a white boarding.

Guess what? The development team is learning how to interview candidates by interviewing candidates! Not prepping a team on how to interview seems very common. Maybe candidates are expendable and ultimately are the ones that need to prove themselves.

I have to wonder how many times qualified candidates get bypassed because they didn't whiteboard just so to the interview's liking. More concerning, how many times have unqualified candidates buffalo inexperienced interviewers with hand-waves or by luck of having seen the problem before, and end up weighing down the team with incompetence.