Comment by herval

Live interviews are generally excellent at revealing that someone is comfortable with live coding interviews. I know plenty of people who excel at them and are unable to code on the job - and vice-versa.

I'm pretty sure there's no correlation whatsoever, after interviewing more than 500 people in a decade...

The correlation that I think _does_ exist is for _junior engineers_: Live coding interviews (particularly if you take typical CS problems) measures how much they're able to memorize and how much attention they paid in class (or in preparation). Which used to be a necessary requirement back in 2001, since it directly correlated to being able to learn by memorization. Unsure that's still a relevant skill since Google > Stack Overflow > ChatGPT, however...