I'm not totally down on white board interviewing but I think it is difficult to do well. By "do well", I mean get a candidate into a state where they aren't fee

I'm not totally down on white board interviewing but I think it is difficult to do well. By "do well", I mean get a candidate into a state where they aren't feeling like "deer in the headlights". For some candidates, That Is Never Going To Happen. As a result, the "It's just an interview. I wonder if they'll buy me lunch?" candidates like myself are going to "score" better than some really great candidates. I've been doing this coding thing longer than many (most?) of you have been alive. I know enough to choose a suitable algorithm for the task at hand. I ship product. I copy paste out the wazoo. That said, the people interviewing you aren't professional interviewers, they are developers who are winging it. They may have never have had a "good" interview so they repeat how they were interviewed i.e. a bad interview. Like the candidate at the whiteboard, the interviewer is out of their element as well.