If you're whiteboarding with a simple pass/fail mentality, I'd say you're doing it wrong. A good whiteboarding exercise lets you see how a candidate explores a

If you're whiteboarding with a simple pass/fail mentality, I'd say you're doing it wrong. A good whiteboarding exercise lets you see how a candidate explores a problem. Do they ask insightful questions? How do they break a problem down? Do they bluff when faced with something they don't know? These are behavioral attributes that are important - much more important than a simple binary test.