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@Merlin Well that is what I mean!! It is popular in my country and some do psuedocode and  some do whiteboard coding.

Based on what I'm reading online its popular with US employers. Amazon, Google and most Silicon valley companies still do the whiteboard based on what I am reading on Quora and Medium and Youtube.

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And my online bootcamp AppAcademy stresses on it as well. So it cant jurt to master the skill, only help.

Sure it is good to have an understanding and be ready and able to do it when asked, but much like the old brainteaser interview questions that Google used to be known for, it really doesn't come up that often anymore in modern interviewing style.

I'm in Silicon Valley, and I also know a lot of other engineering hiring managers and engineers. The last person I know who either asked or was asked to perform a whiteboard coding problem was at Microsoft like 10 years ago. I'm sure it comes up more often than that, but I know I've not asked or seen anyone write actual code on a whiteboard in any of the last few hundred engineering interviews I've been a part of. IMO it isn't a good test of someone's coding ability anyway; modern coding is much more challenging than anything you could do in such a limited environment.

All I'm saying is that a whiteboard is more typically used to show problem-solving skills or demonstrate high-level design & structural approach to coding problems. If any coding is done, its usually just something simple, and pseudocode based. Like there are still a few old-school folks who'll ask someone to implement a bubble sort algorithm (or some variation on the theme) on the whiteboard. I know that used to be a popular question back in the day.