Same here. And when I was looking for jobs, I never had to do a programming excercise. Maybe that's a regional thing? I'm located in Germany.
The most technical thing I had to do during an interview was to give feedback on some code - it took about five minutes and they were happy enough as soon as I criticized the use of field injections. It was a good format though, because it got us talking about technical stuff.
On location for my first job, about ten years ago, remote since then.