"Whiteboard interviews are used, not because they have a lot of relevance to the job, but because they're a hard-to-fake indicator of high intelligence." By no

"Whiteboard interviews are used, not because they have a lot of relevance to the job, but because they're a hard-to-fake indicator of high intelligence." By now it mostly correlates with effort spent preparing. There's dozens of web-sites, companies, consultants and message boards where one can train for those interviews. Whiteboarding is a skill like any other, it can be trained, faked, etc. "But almost all of those qualities are easy to fake and hard to assess in a 30 minute conversation." Perhaps it's not possible to assess somebody's future job performance in a 30m conversation.