It depends on the company and the interviewer. Some are practical enough to assess whether your knowledge and skills match the specific role they are looking f

It depends on the company and the interviewer. Some are practical enough to assess whether your knowledge and skills match the specific role they are looking for. Others (famously Google) would say that they are looking for software engineers in general, not narrow specialists, and thus use more artificial challenges intended to assess the candidate's computational thinking in general.