If you want to learn on the job and are happy to accept an intern's salary, that's great. Most organizations will be able to accomodate you.
If you want $140k and can't code productively, most early startups won't want you. Larger organizations may be able to accomodate you.
There are a shocking number of candidates who apply to senior positions who flat out cannot code. I have hired in the past without doing the whiteboard exercise and been burned by this; never again. The whiteboard is a filter to eliminate people who misrepresent their abilities.
>I have hired in the past without doing the whiteboard exercise and been burned by this; never again.
You should consider offering multiple technical tests and letting the candidate choose. Ideally the choices would range from whiteboard, take-home project, quiz site (hackerrank), or pair coding.
Re:Hiring without whiteboards
by icebraining on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @10:31AM
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Or maybe ninjakeyboard skilled up before applying for a job.
Lovely. Someone put up with you, but now you won't do the same and offer to teach.