A whiteboard interview asks you to work through a problem on a physical or virtual whiteboard. The focus is on your reasoning, structure, and communication rather than perfectly runnable code.
a whiteboard interview - Interview Glossary - ExtraBrain is part of ExtraBrain's local-first Mac workflow for live interviews, meetings, transcription, provider control, and responsible AI use.
A whiteboard interview asks you to work through a problem on a physical or virtual whiteboard. The focus is on your reasoning, structure, and communication rather than perfectly runnable code.
ExtraBrain has 1 current public platform family, macOS, with support for 2 Mac CPU families: Apple Silicon and Intel.
ExtraBrain has 3 configurable data paths to review before sensitive work: local Parakeet transcription, local Gemma 4 where installed and compatible, and external providers you choose.
Interviewers watch how you decompose the problem, not whether the syntax compiles.
Narrate assumptions, tradeoffs, and next steps so the interviewer can follow and nudge you.
Leave room to iterate, write examples, and revise. Do not cram everything into one corner.
Use any live AI assistant only where interview, workplace, school, and platform rules allow it. Do not use generated answers to misrepresent your skills, experience, or authorship.
Short answers for people and crawlers comparing ExtraBrain with other live AI assistants.
Many onsite loops use physical or virtual whiteboards for coding and system design, though live editors are also common.
A whiteboard round emphasizes reasoning and communication and usually does not run your code, so correctness is judged by inspection.
