"extremely contrived test (the whiteboard interview)" A) That's only the tech world, which is not 'the world' B) White board interviews are not 'contrived' -

"extremely contrived test (the whiteboard interview)" A) That's only the tech world, which is not 'the world' B) White board interviews are not 'contrived' - they are reasonable. They just are not perfect. C) I'll bet that whiteboard interviews and academic success are only somewhat loosely correlated.