If you won't code for me in an interview, why would I possibly be interested in you?

Thanks for saving me so much time.

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.

I think I might walk out too, because it's clear that power will be exerted on any candidates who choose to subject themselves to it - it says a lot about the type of work environment that is fostered.

Good. Go work for them.

My "prima donna" filter is working nicely.

I can only assume that I have never noticed these putative canine job postings because I have been looking (or smelling) in the wrong place. At the interview, should I attempt to alter my personal odor, or leave it as is? Will I be asked to sketch out an implementation of "disc fetch" on the whiteboard, or will I be given an actual flying disc and a long hallway? Should I remove experience working for cats from my resume, or leave it in?