Actually I'm also insulted by coding exams, and even more so by the entire hiring process. Anyone who has worked two or three decades in our field like you and

Actually I'm also insulted by coding exams, and even more so by the entire hiring process. Anyone who has worked two or three decades in our field like you and I have knows that the key skill needed today is the ability to learn quickly. In our information rich field, knowing how to develop a solution to a particular problem often reduces to knowing how to search and utilize information effectively. Effectiveness comes from experience and isn't easily measured by assessing our knowledge of this or that programming language or algorithm. Current hiring practices are often mediocre and managed by people with limited understanding of the nature of what we do as coders. You are right in feeling that you should avoid working for these kinds of places.