Yea, I sympathize with the idea that some people freeze up really badly during whiteboard interviews, which is why I'm usually testing competency far below what

Yea, I sympathize with the idea that some people freeze up really badly during whiteboard interviews, which is why I'm usually testing competency far below what I need out of the job. On top of that, the signal is richer than binary; it's possible to fail to solve the question posed and still give an example of how you think. Interviewing is attempting the ridiculous feat of predicting years of job performance on the basis of a few short conversations, so there are going to be false negatives in every interviewing technique. The things I describe above lower FNs to the point that whiteboarding is a very useful tool for assessing candidates.