Ed note: This is a part of series where an author plays both sides of an issue, one of which is obviously terrible. Can you guess which is which?
Our industry needs to own up to something we’ve all known for a long time: whiteboard coding interviews suck. At best, they’re ineffective at measuring a candidate’s capacity and aptitude for the real day-to-day work of a developer, and at worst they’re an inhumane ritual that amounts to little more than fraternity hazing.
I have never, in over 20 years as a professional developer, had a single project that required me to stand at a whiteboard and impl …