Whiteboard Questions

Anyone who has interviewed for a software engineering position has no doubt spent some time practicing “whiteboard questions”.

Whiteboard questions are normally data structures and algorithms-oriented programming questions meant to assess technical competency. Such questions fall short in evaluating the effectiveness of an engineer, but remain prevalent.

Who asks these questions in an interview depends on the company. Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google (a.k.a. “FAANG”) all do.