No it's stupid. Like asking an iOS engineer a question involving a tree data structure. It is stupid and irrelevant because at the end of the day our job is to

No it's stupid. Like asking an iOS engineer a question involving a tree data structure. It is stupid and irrelevant because at the end of the day our job is to build products/features. If you think at a student level you will never learn anything past college. Companies think that by default everyone can write code and build product. So they focus on stupid obscure stuff. I believe it's the opposite. We all went to college and got the same freakin CS degree. We don't know anything about building products when we graduate. Building a product from the ground up without the help of a designer and PM is a tough exercise. Most engineers would fail. Guess what, that's what we do all day in the real world. 10 years later I still get algorithm questions as if my job is %100 about algorithm. That's %5 of my Master's program by the way.