I'm sorry, but as an interviewer I'll never not have some form of live coding. Some people just don't know how to code. I don't mean that in some elitist, gate keepy way. I mean some people lie on resumes. If I used Excel every day (like I was an accountant) I would not take someone's word that they know how to use Excel, I'd want to see them do it.

I am fully aware that problems are harder under stress. I advocate for genuinely easy problems in coding challenges. I don't like brain teasers. I don't really even care if you finish the problem. So long as I can tell that you know how to make a computer do things you tell it in code, know how to ask questions about a problem, and make progress towards solving it -- I'm happy.

At an old job I made the mistake of not conducting a coding session of some form and we hired someone who I genuinely believe didn't know how to program. They'd ask for help on tasks very often and I'd try to guide them in the right way, but once we paired up, they just wouldn't ever type anything. After me becoming more and more clued into something being wrong and seeing no progress I finally mentioned it to my manager. I don't think he ever got fired, just shuffled around.