> And many non-professional athletes going out for a tryout will be put into artificial situations as well instead of being placed on the team and taken to an a

> And many non-professional athletes going out for a tryout will be put into artificial situations as well instead of being placed on the team and taken to an actual competition for their trial, it doesn't mean that tryouts are fundamentally flawed. Athletes play games that are universally timed, programmers don't. Besides sportsmen and athletes are regularly tried out in "lower" games before they graduate to a "higher" level. Linked List questions select for university education and memorising problems, not programming. You are making a false binary of "whiteboard or hire for 1 month" which once gain shows laziness as an interviewer. If you are so proficient in your field, you should be able to gauge a competence of an individual from their past work. It shows more about the interviewr that they resort to some cookie-cutter university course questions to decide competence.