It's funny, when I saw the title I immediately thought "Hell yeah, whiteboard interviews are absolutely necessary". As I read the article, I realized it meant a

It's funny, when I saw the title I immediately thought "Hell yeah, whiteboard interviews are absolutely necessary". As I read the article, I realized it meant actually making people code on whiteboards, which is absurd. I've always used whiteboards for high level design and architecture questions, and there mostly to aid the candidate in organizing their thoughts. If I want to see someone's code, I'll ask them to provide a code sample.