In my experience it is the opposite. At a whiteboard inteview, you can focus on the code and the algorithm. In the real process, you might on any given day al

In my experience it is the opposite. At a whiteboard inteview, you can focus on the code and the algorithm. In the real process, you might on any given day also have to wrangle with your build system, meetings, the structure of existing code, the test setup, colleauges who need help, debugging tools. Now that might be an argument for why a whiteboard interview is inadequate. But not for why an whiteboard interview is distracting.