For what it's worth, I haven't seen any of that in interviews in Europe, for senior positions. At most, there may be some fizzbuzz level question to make sure you're not a fraud. The interviews are mostly a chat about past experiences, opinions about technologies or something like "propose an architecture/tech stack for a problem we had". Also, often there are queries about specifics of technology they're using. All seems to be huge improvement over whiteboarding people.