I find that as the scope of information grows that meta-information becomes far more important. I don't need to know how to solve a problem, but I need to know

I find that as the scope of information grows that meta-information becomes far more important. I don't need to know how to solve a problem, but I need to know the terminology for how to get to information about it. Sometimes you can only guess at the meta though, for example I'm building an RTS type game at the moment and I needed to figure out how to get units to move together and pack around the destination point. Even though the scene is 3d they are only moving on a 2d plane, so I searched for a circle packing algorithm and found usable results. Sadly we're not looking for this skill when interviewing, there they'd have asked me to display skill in different algorithms and structures, language questions etc.