They acknowledge that the term "whiteboard interview"/"whiteboarding" is a simplification and a proxy for a style of interviewing they don't like, but I really

They acknowledge that the term "whiteboard interview"/"whiteboarding" is a simplification and a proxy for a style of interviewing they don't like, but I really wish they didn't pick "whiteboard" as that simplified negative term. Whiteboards don't get enough credit, from my experience. I really like collaborating with someone with a whiteboard: it's fun, it's social, and it feels like a dramatically more effective form of collaboration and explanation than common alternatives like chat conversations and shared docs. I've had jobs where whiteboard-style collaboration is common, and I've had jobs where it almost never happens, and I greatly prefer to be in a culture where it's the norm. So for me, if I go through an interview process and no whiteboards were used in the process at all, it makes me worry that I wouldn't be happy there.