Yes, but of course your experience may vary. If you have been at the same job/company for 5+ years and not actively keeping abreast of the market it can be pret

Yes, but of course your experience may vary. If you have been at the same job/company for 5+ years and not actively keeping abreast of the market it can be pretty easy to stagnate without realizing. I've interviewed a number or candidates that ran into this. They would be a good hire for a lower level position but the Catch-22 is that they are too "advanced" in years at least for that to be a satisfying role and compensation. For myself I can say a definitive yes for 2 reasons - the first is at my current job all the interviewers test run new interview questions as a filter. If a preponderance of don't pass the question we don't use it. the other way I know for sure is that I have been actively interviewing for new roles in a lateral+ capacity. With an n<10 I have 100% pass rate into the interview process and a 75% rate of offer. My prep for interviews is Linkedin sleuthing of the companies and interviewers. If I ended up in an interview process that was asking for me to balance a tree I would likely fail, but I would also not want a job at a company that uses that question. For reference I am a top end IC (principal/architect/lead/etc.) with 20 years in complex web app dev.