I've had to code for interviews where I was given a project to complete in my own time, and then talk about it later if it was a good solution. I aced that proc

I've had to code for interviews where I was given a project to complete in my own time, and then talk about it later if it was a good solution. I aced that process and got the job. I bombed the whiteboard/paper tech interview when I was first invited to interview at my current job (lots of ex co-workers here), and was declined as a candidate. Months later I was invited again, this time just to start, skipping the interview. I'm finishing up my last week here and have nothing but praise and recommendations from my higher-ups, yet I would have never had a shot if people I worked with in the past didn't work here and reach out to me. Actually at one of the places I recently interviewed, I got past the phone screens, cultural interviews, and even a google hangouts/screen-share session where I coded live while talking about the solution -- but I still had a 'get on the whiteboard and write some twist on academic sort functions' and of course froze up more and more with each time I used the eraser. I'm confident I would have done better with a computer. I don't code on paper and whiteboards. Most of us aren't trained to, and state-dependent learning is a real thing. You cannot expect most people to perform as well in a drastically different environment from how they typically do their job.