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Re:Hiring without whiteboards by strictnein on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @02:49PM (#13878675)
> "Turns out that the only sure way to tell if you can do X, is to make you do X and watch you yourself actually do it, in person"

I don't write code on whiteboards for a living, nor am I applying for a job that will have me coding on whiteboards, so watching me do that will tell you almost nothing about the job you're actually hiring me for.

Re:Hiring without whiteboards by dmitrygr on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @04:30PM (#13879492)
I agree it is not ideal, but the counterexamples I provided do explain why other suggested methods are too simple to fool.