[crdoconnor]

I'd rather interviewers asked about database/relational theory.

I've never seen a project that went off the rails because the people on it failed to understand algorithms or the proper time to use a deque but almost every project I'm handed to work on has a data normalization issue.

Alas the Google cargo culting will probably continue...

[vanderZwan]

Well... I'm smart enough to stay the hell away from work where I have to deal with databases (and lucky enough to not having to had to deal with them so far). So I guess I'm saying that I agree.