I am a software engineer with about 35 years of experience. For the last 10 years I am working as an engineering manager, but I am taking an interview or two on

I am a software engineer with about 35 years of experience. For the last 10 years I am working as an engineering manager, but I am taking an interview or two on engineering positions from time to time. I firmly beleive that a good software engineer will never pass an opportunity to write code during the interview, being it a Leetcode, "explain this" or architectural flowchart. If I feel that the task is too easy - good for me, I can ace it and grab some extra points talking about how I would test or deploy that code. Leetcode could be hard. Writing code on a paper could be even harder - I tried it myself. So, denying it you are showing that you are afraid of hard problems. I don't treat it as a strong downside, and I beleive that there are a lot of teams where this type of personality is totally acceptable. But I don't think those teams will ever be successful.