Whiteboard is GREAT for communicating design or technical ideas (e.g, what is consistent hashing, can you show how you'd merge N sorted lists schematically?). A

Whiteboard is GREAT for communicating design or technical ideas (e.g, what is consistent hashing, can you show how you'd merge N sorted lists schematically?). And these skills are super important in both big companies and startups. And we should definitely test candidates in these areas using whiteboards. Making engineers write code on whiteboard is just comical. If we weren't so used to it, we'd probably have laughed at the idea. In 2018, any company still using whiteboards to write anything more than pseudocode is just playing it too safe or being really lazy in changing their process. Just give them a laptop and have them use coderpad/skype interviews or any of the plethora of collaborative code editors out there. Or even, dare I say, an IDE. You can still have the whiteboard in the room to discuss the idea. But write the code on a laptop with internet access.