If you're going to ask a whiteboard question, solve it yourself (on paper, without references). If you can't solve it in a few minutes, it's probably not a good

If you're going to ask a whiteboard question, solve it yourself (on paper, without references). If you can't solve it in a few minutes, it's probably not a good question. I do this with every whiteboard question I ask. I ask these types of questions not because I really care if an interviewee can reverse a linked list or whatever, but to gauge their familiarity with the language. If their resume claims several large projects, and they claim to work with a language every day, but they struggle with the basic syntax, something is off. And that happens all the time.