&gt; How could any programmer worth his&#x2F;her salt would not know about a whiteboard interview?<p>A lot of schools don&#x27;t teach anything about interviewing.  Its not academic.  In fact, a lot of the training videos used in schools that do teach &quot;job skills&quot; to prepare students make no mention of white board interviews.  They talk about being polite, wearing a suit, grooming, etc.<p>Judging an academic program on if they have ever been exposed to a whiteboard interview is fairly silly.  I never saw on in 20 years.<p>As to your last paragraph, I&#x27;m not sure what role culture would play in introducing people to whiteboard interviews.  I guess I grew up in a different environment, but I don&#x27;t remember any of my urban white friends extolling the annual whiteboard festival.  I can see it being a economic function of better schooling though.