Comment by acjohnson55

That's a different thing than what these interviews effectively test for. You're typical live coding asks the candidate to do an unfamiliar task under observation, on their own, and generally without the typical resources at hand.

Even if it were a good proxy for the sort of stress that occurs episodically in the real world, I would argue that the extent to which that skillset is helpful, it is grossly overrepresented in the interview process.