> Your options are to either suck it up and brush up on basic data structures and algorithms or interview at places that don't test for it.

The article is about the fact that if you did just this, you're at a disadvantage because people use Chat GPT to cheat on these and get ahead.

The article is bizarrely conflating whiteboard interviews with online coding tests and even admits such:

Some people have (rightly) pointed out that I'm interchanging whiteboarding (writing on a physical whiteboard) and online coding tests interchangeably