This just sounds like a lot of whining to me. On every CSE test I took when I was in college they graded the code writing portions based on algorithm implement

This just sounds like a lot of whining to me. On every CSE test I took when I was in college they graded the code writing portions based on algorithm implementation. No one ran your code through a compiler and docked pointed for each error. If you wrote array.length() instead of array.length you wouldn't lose points as long as your loop did what it was supposed to do. Also, on every job interview I have ever gone to I have had to write code on paper with the interviewer breathing down my neck.