Even as a self-taught guy I don't agree with this take. I do get hung up on technical interview trivia, but that's because I refuse to load my brain with useles

Even as a self-taught guy I don't agree with this take. I do get hung up on technical interview trivia, but that's because I refuse to load my brain with useless interview trivia. If I was going to play the game, there are plenty of special-purpose resources available that I could cram before an interview. There are also resources like Anki through which I could use spaced repetition to load it into longer-term memory.