Yes to whiteboards if they're used correctly. If the candidate can't explain or solve something simply on a whiteboard, they probably don't understand the prob

Yes to whiteboards if they're used correctly. If the candidate can't explain or solve something simply on a whiteboard, they probably don't understand the problem or domain. That's not to say that the interviewer might not be a great interviewer in the first place though. Quote: "Feynman was a truly great teacher. He prided himself on being able to devise ways to explain even the most profound ideas to beginning students. Once, I said to him, “Dick, explain to me, so that I can understand it, why spin one-half particles obey Fermi-Dirac statistics.” Sizing up his audience perfectly, Feynman said, “I’ll prepare a freshman lecture on it.” But he came back a few days later to say, “I couldn’t do it. I couldn’t reduce it to the freshman level. That means we don’t really understand it.”"