[atoav]

As someone who interviewed people for technical roles, I'd see that as a bad sign and answer: "Just tell me what you can think about."

This isn't school where teachers give you trick questions and you fail if you misunderstand it. If you are applying as a software developer and you can't talk at length about various forms of interfaces you are probably not very experienced. UI, API, ABI are all interfaces..

[liveoneggs]

> This isn't school where teachers give you trick questions and you fail if you misunderstand it

Please explain leetcode live sessions, random brain teasers (how many pinball balls blah blah blah), weird off-the-wall questions (you were just in a plane crash/you wake up as a cockroach), AI trivia screeners, and the rest?

[sam_bristow]

I've been doing a bunch of receuiting recently and I make a point at the beginning of each interview to explicitly tell them that we don't do trick questions. We also don't do leetcode at all.

My approach to interviewing is that I want candidates to do the best they possibly can.

[xahrepap]

One time an interviewer asked me languages I knew.

After I went through my experience with Java, C#, python, etc. he said, “I meant like… Spanish…”

[atoav]

Thst is a badly phrased question. "What languages do you speak?", would be the question to ask.

Because even of you were thinking about spoken languages, what does "knowing" mean? I "know" Hungarian exists, I know how Hungarian sounds like, I know how Hungarian words look like, but that doesn't mean I speak or understand it. Now if it was clear they meant apoken languages we could infer from the context they want to know about our skills with different spoken languages and didn't read our CV, which at least where I am from always contains a languages level with a skill level (e.g. German A1, English B1)

So yeah interviewers can suck at their job.