I think half the anger over the silly dance is people who are angry they can't do the dance or never put in the time to learn. It's also not quite as silly as

I think half the anger over the silly dance is people who are angry they can't do the dance or never put in the time to learn. It's also not quite as silly as you'd think. I've programmed a lot and for a long time. Some for personal enjoyment, some for school, some professionally. That covered 80% of the dance and landed me good tech jobs. Working on my weaknesses in algorithms and doing leetcode for a month got me a very good tech job. Whiteboard coding will identify strong programmers who can perform under pressure and people who are practiced a lot of whiteboard coding.