I wonder if the problem isn&#x27;t so much that we&#x27;re still asking people to code on the whiteboard as it is that we&#x27;re simply asking people to code things on the whiteboard which are too complicated.  I remember a few years ago when FizzBuzz was all the rage, and a lot of people believed it was a useful question to ask, since it filtered out people who apparently couldn&#x27;t code at all.<p>Of course FizzBuzz can&#x27;t discriminate the merely competent from the truly brilliant, but there&#x27;s probably no 45 minute whiteboard exercise which can, and I think there&#x27;s wide agreement that should not be the purpose of whiteboarding exercises, anyway.