You still had to do a coding test -- but it was pointing to the bug in the C++ linked-list implementation on a single sheet of line printer paper.
Because nobody was going to carry a Sun workstation down to the meeting room just for your interview.
I remember a Java job interview like that. "Tell us what you would do to improve this code" with a couple pages of code printed out :-D
I remember a Java job interview like that. "Tell us what you would do to improve this code" with a couple pages of code printed out :-D