[bzz01]

As an engineer with ten years of software dev experience who interviews quite a lot of candidates for my current team, I'd say don't overthink this.

BigO, data structures and having a good idea how computers work, what matters for performance both from theoretical and practical perspective, matters infinitely more to us that knowing how to play object-oriented BS bingo or subversion usage patterns.

If you know what MVC stands for, you're know enough about OO patterns to me.

Not going to argue that we got it right way(tm), just wanted to give you another perspective.