I think whiteboard questions are great if you make them either pretty easy questions, or more complex questions that you just diagram and discuss. In the first

I think whiteboard questions are great if you make them either pretty easy questions, or more complex questions that you just diagram and discuss. In the first case, you filter out poor coders very easily, and see how the better coders apporach the problem. In the second case, you learn about their thought process when approaching a problem where you can't just modify an algorithm you have already practiced and answer it.