As with everything, it depends. To me, whiteboard interviewing makes sense when hiring for a role that leans toward a comp-sci background. People who do well i

As with everything, it depends. To me, whiteboard interviewing makes sense when hiring for a role that leans toward a comp-sci background. People who do well in these roles typically have a brain that works in a certain way. The roles that lean away from a comp-sci background are usually the type of developers who don't do well with whiteboard interviewing techniques. What too often happens is that a hiring engineer doesn't interview within the context of the role they are hiring for.