The items you list may not be as universal in software development as you seem to think they are. There are plenty of highly competent programmers who haven’t t

The items you list may not be as universal in software development as you seem to think they are. There are plenty of highly competent programmers who haven’t thought about designing a database schema in many years, or who have never deployed code to a cloud environment (at least not in the way you have in mind). Having a set of common knowledge to interview about is in fact very useful.