You can always screw up an interview, or maybe some interview process is suboptimal, or some people feel pressure. But the claim you made was that these are qu

You can always screw up an interview, or maybe some interview process is suboptimal, or some people feel pressure. But the claim you made was that these are questions that you memorize the answers for, that they're trivia questions. I can tell you, I have not, in any interview, in the past 7 years, gotten a question that I already knew the answer for. And I've asked questions that people didn't already know the answer for, and guess what they do? Many of them figure out the answer. After all, they're questions designed to be ones that you can figure out the answer to in 20-30 minutes.