I wonder if the problem isn't so much that we're still asking people to code on the whiteboard as it is that we're simply asking people to code things on the wh

I wonder if the problem isn't so much that we're still asking people to code on the whiteboard as it is that we're simply asking people to code things on the whiteboard which are too complicated. I remember a few years ago when FizzBuzz was all the rage, and a lot of people believed it was a useful question to ask, since it filtered out people who apparently couldn't code at all. Of course FizzBuzz can't discriminate the merely competent from the truly brilliant, but there's probably no 45 minute whiteboard exercise which can, and I think there's wide agreement that should not be the purpose of whiteboarding exercises, anyway.