> the whole interview process is based on the idea of doing stuff for the company that you wouldn't actually do
The process for successful interviewing at places that use whiteboard testing for interviewing involves digging in and putting in a lot of hard work studying previously unknown concepts-- work that most people don't consider very fun.
To me, this sounds like exactly the kind of thing that a person will need to do to be successful in their first few months in a big company. Learning about their particular systems, authentication and authorization methods, security audit procedures, deployment methods, how they do dependency injection, logging, diagnostics, troubleshooting...
The process for successful interviewing at places that use whiteboard testing for interviewing involves digging in and putting in a lot of hard work studying previously unknown concepts-- work that most people don't consider very fun.
To me, this sounds like exactly the kind of thing that a person will need to do to be successful in their first few months in a big company. Learning about their particular systems, authentication and authorization methods, security audit procedures, deployment methods, how they do dependency injection, logging, diagnostics, troubleshooting...