Yeah I agree that in a perfect world, people whose jobs will entirely consist of working on a computer, mostly in an IDE, should not be interviewed on a whitebo

Yeah I agree that in a perfect world, people whose jobs will entirely consist of working on a computer, mostly in an IDE, should not be interviewed on a whiteboard. But the whiteboard is a filter for people who are so unfamiliar with programming that they can't reason without the crutch of an IDE. For example, I've seen some people who can do amazing things with Scratch IDE, but can't sit down in front of nano or vim and hammer out code to save their lives. IDE's can be a crutch for thorough learning of a language, and I learned that by leaning too hard on JetBrains, then trying to dev over ssh on a raspi.