FWIW I always ask some really super simple coding questions in interviews, even for really senior people with apparently stellar CVs. Let them pick their language or use psuedocode or whatever.
It's surprising how many 'senior' engineers are actually BSers who will slow you down or derail you completely rather than speed you up and you need to spot them because they will excel at getting through the non-technical interview filtering!
Also, I'm interested in how you explore things and explain things. I'm not actually interested in acquiring an implementation of FizzBuzz or whatever. I just want you to show me that you 'get' it and then we can get on to the interesting stuff like 'tell me about your last project' etc.
So don't be too hasty to think the people doing technical interviews are idiots thinking devs are interchangeable cogs etc.
It's surprising how many 'senior' engineers are actually BSers who will slow you down or derail you completely rather than speed you up and you need to spot them because they will excel at getting through the non-technical interview filtering!
Also, I'm interested in how you explore things and explain things. I'm not actually interested in acquiring an implementation of FizzBuzz or whatever. I just want you to show me that you 'get' it and then we can get on to the interesting stuff like 'tell me about your last project' etc.
So don't be too hasty to think the people doing technical interviews are idiots thinking devs are interchangeable cogs etc.