[untog]

I would be more specific - Death to Interview By Whiteboard.

I haven't had many, but every whiteboard interview I've had has been miserable. At best I've just about managed to convey what I mean, at worst I don't even understand the question.

One particularly memorable exercise had the interviewer write out HTML on the board and ask me to write out the CSS to turn it into a dropdown menu. I didn't even know where to start, because I couldn't construct a mental model of what was going on where. Because outside of the white board interview I never have to.

A much better technical interview that I do not with death upon is one that put me in front a computer which was rigged up to a projector that the interviewer could see. We talked through my solution to an exercise as I constructed it, and I was free to switch between the browser and editor as I wanted. You know, like I might in a normal, actual working day.

An even even better interview was one that left me in a room for 45 minutes with a task. After that time I sat down with the interviewer and talked through what I did.

[kasey_junk]

I'm not saying that your experience is wrong or weird, but I have encountered just as many people that hate the rigged up projector interview.

In my experience, being bad in either one of these interview types is not correlative to being bad at being a developer.