Sketching out ideas and preliminary diagrams is very different from programming on a whiteboard. If a whiteboard interview were talking at a higher level about

Sketching out ideas and preliminary diagrams is very different from programming on a whiteboard. If a whiteboard interview were talking at a higher level about the problems at hand then I don't think it'd be such a problem. However, that doesn't seem to be the case. In whiteboard interviews you're asked to write detailed code on a board.