That is true, but you aren&#x27;t going to be grilled on it as strictly if you were an experienced developer.<p>We in the industry know that CS programs don&#x27;t consistently crank out people with superb coding skills. Those people are almost always &quot;self-made&quot; programmers (who got their CS degrees too).<p>&gt; <i>In fact it would make less sense to ask a senior programmer whiteboard questions.</i><p>Indeed, but he or she isn&#x27;t one, right?<p>Look at some of the comments: <i>There was also a fair amount of confusion on the out of bounds issue, which we feel was the type of bug that would have been caught faster by a more experienced engineer.</i><p>Basically the message is <i>we are looking for a more experienced engineer for this position</i> and not <i>you suck at white-boarding, go away!</i><p>But they know about the level of experience from the resume. So why bother interviewing at all? Probably they are somewhat willing to overlook lack of documented experience, in case a &quot;superstar&quot; programmer shows up. You know, one of those who has been programming since age six, and whose CS degree is just a paper with a stamp so their resume isn&#x27;t tossed aside.<p>(Or it could just be a string of bad luck, or the way the job market is in the area. Maybe everyone is grilling new grads to find superstar programmers.)