There's so much hate for "whiteboard interviews" and "interviewers focusing on themselves rather than the candidate" and all that on HN, but what if...this is a

There's so much hate for "whiteboard interviews" and "interviewers focusing on themselves rather than the candidate" and all that on HN, but what if...this is actually what works for some companies? Some people want to work on super challenging problems with technically brilliant coworkers. Some people treat a poor performance not as a humiliation, but as an opportunity to understand how much they do not yet know. What if you want to attract candidates like that? Ask them tough questions, don't tailor the questions to their strengths, and have the interviewers show off how smart they are (even if they're not, it's easy to appear smart when you have all the answers). Pay good money and have high prestige so that you get plenty of quality applicants for every role, because you're going to miss out on many of the good ones, but you will attract some of the brightest and most driven people.