The interviews I've enjoyed most were the ones where the interviewer and I got to chat about some technical project in depth. For my last job switch, one of the

The interviews I've enjoyed most were the ones where the interviewer and I got to chat about some technical project in depth. For my last job switch, one of the interview rounds was specifically about a project I had worked on and the interviewer that round just asked me to go into how things worked, why design decisions were made the way they were, what the constraints were, etc. Implicit in the whole whiteboarding thing is a subtle accusation that you can't actually do what you claim you can do; this interview instead hinged on the idea that I had done this and that there would be better insight into my work if it was specific and historical, rather than palely rehashing an algorithms class. It also helped a ton that the interviewer seemed genuinely interested in talking about the project, so the whole thing felt much closer to a conversation than a performance.