Erm, I'm not so sure about that. When I applied to Google the recruiter literally explained there will be whiteboard interviews. She even recommended a book a

Erm, I'm not so sure about that. When I applied to Google the recruiter literally explained there will be whiteboard interviews. She even recommended a book about preparing for software interviews. (I think I read about half of the book.) It can be daunting if you never expected it, but whiteboard interviews are ubiquitous: you should be prepared except perhaps for your very first such interview. (And it shouldn't take more than two weeks or so. Just re-read the first half of, say, CLRS (or any algorithm textbook you should have studied before), and try solving a few of the problems on the whiteboard.)