The part that is weird for me is that you are aggravated from a candidate perspective, I am aggravated from a hiring perspective, but nothing will change.<p>I think it became standard because it scales, at least in some sense. Once big companies started doing it (because of scaling issues) small companies started doing it (because of &quot;hey, it works for Google&quot; issues). If I was in a small company, I am sure I would have a little more freedom in how I hire, but I am not.<p>I think I am actually okay with the white-board puzzle quizzes if you have <i>nothing else to go on</i>. For instance, a college graduate who only has course projects. However, we use them for everyone.<p>Maybe once you get to X years of experience (maybe 10?) the white-board interviews become easy, you&#x27;re used to them.