[maccard]

> You say "likely familiar with" but interviews are conducted as if it's a pop quiz. Which I never understood.

Sure - the point of being familiar with it is so that we don't have to spend a chunk of the very limited time we have explaining a problem space, and we can talk about the technical stuff.

> If you want to have a decently technical discussion, why not just tell me ahead of time what topic and I come to the interview with research?

I try really hard to design interviews to not require take home work. I don't have stats to say whether this is right or not, but my goal as a HM is to try and keep the process to recruiter/HM call, 1/2 tech interviews and an interview with someone else on the team who is not a programmer (I hire in games so you're pretty much guaranteed to be working with Artists/Designers).