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by fayyazkl 2051 days ago
Thats certainly invalid. People with 20 years of experience or more, are asked questions based upon the role they are interviewing for.

If you are applying for a principal or higher engineer role and your job involves coding, you are asked coding questions. May be not just focused on a complex bookish algorithm only, but rather more close to a real life distributed programming / synchronization problem etc. for example.