I like the idea of doing a code review with someone, and talking through an actual problem, as described in the article. I've done the whiteboarding, and that

I like the idea of doing a code review with someone, and talking through an actual problem, as described in the article. I've done the whiteboarding, and that was exhausting. I've done programming exercises where I wrote code to some spec, then talked it through with my interviewer; that was a little better. My first job in 2008 involved about a 15-minute coding exercise, and talking to half a dozen people for about 15 minutes each, mostly just having conversations. That was a relatively nice interview, and a good team to work with for a number of years.