[kolanos]

Having been on both sides of a technical interview many times I see these kinds of things as a sort of pissing contest. You would think that devs would approach a technical interview in a more pragmatic way, but instead it turns into a secret handshake to figure out if your interviewee has read the same books you have. I've actually walked into multiple interviews where I was effectively quizzed on the book "Programming Pearls" -- which is/was required reading at Google. There seems to be a belief among devs that if you don't know A or B then you don't know anything. I've gone from positions where I did extensive ML and signal processing to interviews where I walked out thinking I was a complete fraud. I don't know why we do this to each other....