> The big companies that use them have started to finally admit this

I didn't get as much whiteboard coding as I thought in my recent interview with a big company. Last 2 actually.

But of course facebook and google was still all coding. Google is still obsessed with their overwrought process, and still try to sell a poor false positive rate as a feature.

I still haven't really heard a better idea. Some of them sound incredibly hostile to the applicant (e.g. lets try it for X days). Do this work, bring it in and discuss is a pretty decent idea.

I'd like to see more of "here's what we want, lets code it on this computer however you want.". Lets talk about while we work.

or just talk about what you have done.