> "My company requires excellent communication and writing skills, so would you mind talking a 5h grade spelling and grammar test?" That's not comparable. A to

> "My company requires excellent communication and writing skills, so would you mind talking a 5h grade spelling and grammar test?" That's not comparable. A total whiteboard interview might take several hours, but it increases significantly in complexity from basic FizzBuzz. A more comparable analogy would be asking them to merely edit a few paragraphs for grammatical mistakes, or something similarly trivial in whatever domain you'd like that should take fewer than 10 minutes if the person has literally any meaningful facility with the work. Like the person you're responding to, I'll say this: I deeply dislike whiteboard coding culture. But of the things I dislike about whiteboard coding, I dislike dead simple sanity checks the least.