Whiteboard interviews don’t measure anything. Measuring would mean the company would have objective metrics derived from interviews. The process seems to be int

Whiteboard interviews don’t measure anything. Measuring would mean the company would have objective metrics derived from interviews. The process seems to be intended to filter out people who can’t write code at all (a surprisingly large number of people who call themselves programmers). I think the process mainly exists to give interviewing some veneer of objectivity or science, to head off discrimination lawsuits. People make hiring decisions based on first impressions and their own biases, but they have to pretend they are following some more objective process.