The whole justification for whiteboard coding is total BS. Never have I ever written actual code on a whiteboard, not even "when we are banging our heads again

The whole justification for whiteboard coding is total BS. Never have I ever written actual code on a whiteboard, not even "when we are banging our heads against a problem and there is a deadline looming and blablabla". Yes we do go to the whiteboard. To design stuff. To organize components of the platform and figure out how the fuck to coordinate some f-ing distributed transaction, or how to send messages from A to B and not create a bottleneck. We don't try to write the pseudo-code for a palindrome detector. I have nothing against coding interview, in front of a computer. Whiteboard coding? I just leave the room. If you give me a whiteboard coding exercise, you failed my interview.