> It's not trendy or popular at the moment but asking somebody to write some simple code on a whiteboard is a really good indicator of whether or not they're a

> It's not trendy or popular at the moment but asking somebody to write some simple code on a whiteboard is a really good indicator of whether or not they're a good programmer. This again? This has been argued to death on HN. All the evidence points towards that type of interview having absolutely NO correlation to programming ability. It's also NOT what the author was talking about in TFA. He wasn't talking about general programming ability. He was talking specifically about data engineers who need to know how to do exactly what he was asking for on a daily basis. Notice nowhere in TFA did the author mention a whiteboard even once.