When people started testing programmer candidates on whiteboards people actually did program on paper as part of their normal workflow because computers were ex

When people started testing programmer candidates on whiteboards people actually did program on paper as part of their normal workflow because computers were expensive: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/51286/how-did-programmers-work-back-when-a-computer-was-very-expensive-rare-as-big-a http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/51286/how-did... However, it is strange that the practice is still so widespread long after people stopped programming on paper. In our company we do not test candidates on whiteboards as part of our hiring process since I find it rather ridiculous and do not want to communicate to our candidates that we follow conventions even when they are obviously stupid.