Rethinking Technical Interviews: From Whiteboard Coding to Code Review

AI agents now effectively handle 80% of routine code generation, making traditional whiteboard coding tests irrelevant to modern hiring needs. Companies are redesigning interviews to evaluate domain judgment, critical thinking about system consequences, and business impact—skills AI cannot replicate. This paradigm shift reveals that technical hiring should assess whether candidates can think like seniors who catch costly bugs and understand long-term consequences, not simply write syntactically correct code under pressure.