100% not ageism. Whiteboarding itself is just a skill to practice. I don’t pick jobs based on the interview process, I pick the companies I wanted to join and p

100% not ageism. Whiteboarding itself is just a skill to practice. I don’t pick jobs based on the interview process, I pick the companies I wanted to join and practice the skills needed to pass the interview. After 10 years in the industry my whiteboarding was always terrible until my last round of interviews where I decided to actually focus on it and I passed the interviews at Facebook and Google. My problem was that I could always solve the problems but I was too slow without the keyboard and the compiler to help. So I practiced writing code without those tools and got faster. I think if anything my experience helped, so I’ve come around on whiteboarding. It’s not perfect, but any good coder can learn it and the bar is not really that high.