I am a chemical engineer currently working in a consulting niche (air emissions control and regional air quality management). My interviews have very consisten

I am a chemical engineer currently working in a consulting niche (air emissions control and regional air quality management). My interviews have very consistently been designed to test my writing and public speaking skills, which are admittedly crucial in my job, rather than specific engineering knowledge. At this point, my resume contains reasonably strong evidence that I possess such knowledge, but that wasn't the case when I was starting out and the interviews weren't really any different. The closest things to technical questions I can remember being asked are of the form: "Imagine a piece of equipment you are responsible for isn't working. What are some steps you would take to identify and solve the problem?" I have also occasionally interviewed for non-SWE positions at tech companies (usually data scientist or regulatory compliance positions, both of which are closely related to my current field), and I have found the interviews to be similarly light on technical material, but with much less emphasis on speaking and writing skills. Not having been through any SWE interviews myself, that's about as much as I can say in comparison. My loose impression is that SWE interviews are relatively heavy on logic puzzles and mini coding problems, but that's all I know. I am happy to answer more specific questions about my experience, of course.