Title: It&#x27;s the second time in a few months I&#x27;m being turned down with the pretext of a failed whiteboard interview. Things like improper syntax and not getting the damned recursive solution fast enough.
Given that I am 42 yrs old and been at this line of work for 14 yrs now I think it&#x27;s safe to assume that I neither have the time nor the appetite to constantly exercise on solving mind puzzles in whiteboard. I am good at what I do -and I do it at a top level company- but it has nothing to do with coding on a whiteboard. I&#x27;m sure that anyone who is a few years _out_ of the university and _into_ a real job finds it both hard and surreal to go through these hoops to land a job. Whiteboarding simply tests for skills that are not needed nor exercised once you&#x27;re out of uni<i>.<p>Thinking all that it then dawned on me. Maybe this abomination is just a way to take out older candidates and favor young ones. A form of ageism that is legally safe for the company.<p>Dunno - what&#x27;s your thoughts?<p></i>By whiteboarding here I mean testing the form of questions one can find in places like hackerank and the like. Obviously, drawing a large system design or using a whiteboard as an aid to describe&#x2F;analyze other aspects of a system is not the topic I&#x27;m touching on here.<p>PS 1: I&#x27;m done with that sh1tshow myself. I sincerely hope I&#x27;m never that desperate to put myself through that again.<p>PS 2: For what is worth here&#x27;s a repo with all companies that do not use whiteboarding: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;poteto&#x2F;hiring-without-whiteboards
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