The problem is having people conduct whiteboard interviews without actually understanding what the whiteboard interview is looking for. 10x engineers tend to be

The problem is having people conduct whiteboard interviews without actually understanding what the whiteboard interview is looking for. 10x engineers tend to be force multipliers not because of their technical skills, it's due to their excellent soft skills (communication/leadership). Because organizational communication problems increase cost exponentially, so decreasing communication overhead is far better returns than a slightly better technical implementation. So you have all these people running these interviews focusing on the problem being asked when in reality, the solution to the problem is mostly irrelevant.