Whiteboard interview has nothing to do with coding proficiency. Writing pseudo code of an algorithm by hand does not tell you much at all about how proficient s

Whiteboard interview has nothing to do with coding proficiency. Writing pseudo code of an algorithm by hand does not tell you much at all about how proficient somebody is as a coder. Coding is the act of writing code, not ideating an algorithmic solution. Its almost completely orthogonal to computer science problem solving. The principles of high quality code (from a design perspective) are also completely orthogonal to runtime complexity of an algorithm.