[sabman83]

A somewhat related experience I had with a company that advertised proudly that they don't do live coding tests. They had a take-home exercise which I did very well and I was scheduled for a phone interview later. I was expecting it to be more around system design, behavioral questions but to my surprise it was a live coding test.

After the interview was done I questioned the person why have another coding test. He said it was to test on different areas of programming. I later messaged the VP/CTO who wrote the blog post on not having live coding test. The person apologized for the experience and said that the team I interviewed for did not come under engineering org. It was a frustrating experience but at least the person responded positively.