i wouldn't take it too personally nor read too much into it. the whiteboard interview wants to extract signal ranging from "make sure this person isn't a comple

i wouldn't take it too personally nor read too much into it. the whiteboard interview wants to extract signal ranging from "make sure this person isn't a complete n00b/fraud" to really relevant problems that should probably be eminently doable, depending on role. but due to a variety of factors it doesn't do this very well. for many the biggest is social pressure where at least 1 person is completely watching you work, which is stressful if novel or you're shy. or lack of familiar tooling, or whatever. yes there are myriad better ways to extract this signal but, as the saying goes, you get to choose the game you play but not its rules. you've enumerated one option which is refusing whiteboard interviews, but you could also level up your whiteboard game without too too much effort. personally i don't think it's time to reach for malice after 2 failed attempts at something i'm inferring you haven't done in awhile.