Maybe I'm out there as far as this topic is concerned, but as a software engineer I enjoy whiteboard interviews. If you can't get up in front of a couple potent

Maybe I'm out there as far as this topic is concerned, but as a software engineer I enjoy whiteboard interviews. If you can't get up in front of a couple potential colleagues and talk/draw code, how are you supposed to whiteboard complex designs in meetings after you are hired, possibly to higher-ups? But I agree there should be set parameters in an interview: ask every candidate the same open-ended design questions, stress that they just use pseudocode, keep the problem questions small (5-10 mins max), don't be a overlording interviewing jerk, etc.