There are many valid points they raise, but this one is pure malarkey: But when they interviewed at larger companies, they had to do these "whiteboard

There are many valid points they raise, but this one is pure malarkey: But when they interviewed at larger companies, they had to do these "whiteboard" interviews, where you're given a coding challenge and you go to the whiteboard and attack it. And our guys didn't get hired, right? They had never done a whiteboard interview. So, in that case, is there something wrong with the fellow, or is there something wrong with the interview process? I hate whiteboard interviews as much as the next person, but it's not like it's a secret that whiteboard interviews are standard practice, and pretty much everyone I know that is good at them became good at them the same way; they studied. It's pretty common advice everywhere on the internet that when you need to prepare for such interviews that you go grab yourself a copy of the well-regarded "Cracking the Code Interview" by Gayle McDowell or one of the other code interview prep books. Failing at a whiteboard code interview is not a race or gender thing. It's a failure to do some basic research on what to expect in the interview or a failure to spend the time preparing for what you're going to encounter in the interview process.