I've never understood the point of asking people questions about any topic they haven't specifically said they know something about. If you say you wrote a cla

I've never understood the point of asking people questions about any topic they haven't specifically said they know something about. If you say you wrote a class/method to query a db, I might ask you high level questions like what is the communications mechanism between your software and the database (looking for anything that means network: socket, tcp/ip, etc.). Then if the language is java I might try to get you to tell me about using the try/catch/finally structure and why you'd do that. Basically, I don't care if you can regurgitate facts, I just want to dig deep enough to be convinced that you actually accomplished what you said you'd accomplished.