Anyone else thinks that Whiteboard interview is just covered ageism? It really depends on who is interviewing you. It can be. Even the Google Hangouts, screen-

Anyone else thinks that Whiteboard interview is just covered ageism? It really depends on who is interviewing you. It can be. Even the Google Hangouts, screen-sharing one can be. I've definitely had that sense from one interview. Given that I am 42 yrs old and been at this line of work for 14 yrs now I'm a bit older than you, and have just a bit more experience, so I think I know where you are coming from. Whiteboarding simply tests for skills that are not needed nor exercised once you're out of uni. Again, this greatly depends on who is applying the technique and how it is being applied. It can be applied to see if the person can actually do the kind of systems thinking to put a new design together and make it specifiable, such that someone could go and implement it. That said, I've also taught courses to high school, college, and professional students, and I think the skill set for interviewing and the difficulty of learning good application of the techniques is of the same scale as teaching. In other words, don't expect to get good outcomes by just giving interviewers a few seminars, then telling them to go at it. You'll get the same level of interviewing as the level of teaching you get by doing the same thing to TA's with no experience. The biggest single issue I've seen in whiteboard interviews, is the interviewers being hyper focused on what they want to find, and not listening to what the candidate is saying.