They are not reviewing code, they are reviewing people. And doing a terrible job at that if it really involves code printouts and short interviews. This is like

They are not reviewing code, they are reviewing people. And doing a terrible job at that if it really involves code printouts and short interviews. This is likely a fishing expedition to collect data to disguise layoffs as performance firings. He's not interested in accurately tell if they are capable or not, he's likely just trying to gauge who to "obviously" maintain and get rid of the rest since he already stated that in his view 75% of the company is redundant.