I wouldn't say that about all companies - I had some pretty hard whiteboarding questions when interviewing recently from companies of all sorts of sizes, but as

I wouldn't say that about all companies - I had some pretty hard whiteboarding questions when interviewing recently from companies of all sorts of sizes, but aside from Google and one other company, all of them have made it quite obvious how the problems I was solving on a whiteboard relates to the actual problems the companies were solving. The whiteboard questions were also interspersed with architecture design questions, and I wasn't necessarily expected to code everything either, especially if it was obvious how to accomplish a task from how I described tge approach.