Whiteboard coding interviews are a hazing ritual for initiation and not really a filter for programming proficiency. The headline is nonsense, and since they do

Whiteboard coding interviews are a hazing ritual for initiation and not really a filter for programming proficiency. The headline is nonsense, and since they don't try to establish anything intrinsically feminine or masculine that this process is against, it is very misleading. However, whiteboard architecture interviews for solving certain higher level classes of problems do provide a signal for problem solving ability. Design is a narrative process that you make concrete with diagrams, so it's more suited to an interview situation. The trial-by-trivia approach of coding interviews creates a culture where you get a company full of people who shared copies of the exam answers with the people they referred in for the hiring bonus. A company succeeds on the quality of its products, which is the effect of the quality of design and architecture thinking, and not on the ability of its staff to perform live optimizations on fizzbuzz.