Kind of a meta point, but why do you call it the whiteboard interview? I think that was more popular 5 to 10 years ago, actually writing code or pseudocode on a

Kind of a meta point, but why do you call it the whiteboard interview? I think that was more popular 5 to 10 years ago, actually writing code or pseudocode on a whiteboard. In my experience the leetcode style questions most companies use today have you actually write and execute code in a sandbox environment. It may be that the algorithms you’re required to come up with are still overkill in that they’re things you would not normally need to write from scratch on the spot without being able to references any resources in your day to day work. But as far as the format goes, this style of actually writing and executing code is clearly an improvement on the write-code-on-whiteboard style of interview. I feel your pain though, the weeks of study that almost any good engineer needs to put into preparing for interviews can be pretty grueling.