I absolutely hate whiteboard interviews. I have been lucky enough to have had only one whiteboard interview in my career and I will say it was awful. Luckily I

I absolutely hate whiteboard interviews. I have been lucky enough to have had only one whiteboard interview in my career and I will say it was awful. Luckily I didn't really need the job as I had freelance on the side. IIRC the company was TripAdvisor... I will not name the interviewer's name but he does have a blog... sadly I think he is actually proud of his interviewing and management techniques). I have absolutely terrible handwriting and even worse ability in penmanship layout (basically what I call consistent and appropriate spacing). Before the interview the interviewer didn't even shake my hand and barely made eye contact with me. He looked pissed before we even started (its ironic again because the guy praises his people skills in his blog). In the interview I was asked to do a binary tree sort. I did it recursively. He wanted it to be not recursive and with an array. At this point I was pretty nervous and my whiteboard looked like a 5 year olds scribbling. I just wanted the interview to end so I sort of just gave up. A couple months later I ironically started a successful recruiting software company. Even more ironic the interviewer later tried to start his own startup but failed and had to go back to TripAdvisor (this was about 3 or 4 years ago). I tried to connect on LinkedIn with him to give him some feedback... alas he did not connect. The reason I wanted to leave him feedback (besides the sick inkling to rub in my success) is I have learned so much from my recruiting software company. I see people desperately applying for jobs everyday (we are career portals as a service. We try to make the apply process as painless as possible). People seem to forget how uncomfortable it is to go looking for a job (probably why he went back to his old company).