I recently had a round of interviews for a senior engineering position. Luckily it was on hackerrank, but only as a way to store the exercise instructions with

I recently had a round of interviews for a senior engineering position. Luckily it was on hackerrank, but only as a way to store the exercise instructions with a timer. The test itself was not terribly difficult, build a small mobile app (I am a mobile dev). It was still enough to demonstrate how you can architecture an app, good design patterns, clean code, etc After that I had another round of interview with that same company. I feared that ridiculous whiteboard was on the menu. One of the engineers reassured me when I inquired about the content of this interview : "we think that wb are bullshit, we just want to discuss". In the end I was offered the job, with a really nice compensation package. I should mention that I live on another continent and did all these interviews remotely. Is this a general trend in the silicon valley area ? or was I just lucky to stumble on companies that don't believe in whiteboard questions ?