My view is that a coding interview is not an interview of whether you can code. It is an interview about your communication, whether the code you write can be

My view is that a coding interview is not an interview of whether you can code. It is an interview about your communication, whether the code you write can be maintained, whether you can inspire/build trust (can you explain what you're doing? does that feel reasonable to the other person?). Where people fail is to think that it's a test of experience, or a "heads down I must make every test case pass", that the outcome matters more than the process. It's all about communication.