It hurts when you say legacy companies make you write code in interviews :) Cos during interviews I ask people to write some code to solve the problem, I emphasise that it need not be dependent on any specific language. I encourage them to write pseudocode or atleast the logic for given problem or algorithm. I believe if you can't solve a problem(atleast to some extent) on a paper, you will spend many hours on screen!
In my prev org, we used to do a lot of whiteboarding, during interviews as well as in the project.
RE: Remembering Syntax is no longer a requirement