I think there's been enough rancor about whiteboard interviews that people are looking for a better way. I personally was never very good at on-the-spot whitebo

I think there's been enough rancor about whiteboard interviews that people are looking for a better way. I personally was never very good at on-the-spot whiteboarding even though I'm decent at building stuff, so my company's interview process incorporates a take-home coding challenge. It's not as in depth as deploying an app but it tends to take a couple hours. I can't imagine paying someone to interview though. Both parties are spending time (and money) on the interview already and if you don't want the job enough to put in a day getting it, to me that's a signal that you wouldn't be very interested in the problems we're working on. I do sympathize though and agree that interviews still suck (for both sides).