Some perennial favorite "interview questions" of mine: 1. Tell me the difference between final, finally and finalize in Java. (Of course it was completely irre

Some perennial favorite "interview questions" of mine: 1. Tell me the difference between final, finally and finalize in Java. (Of course it was completely irrelevant to the discussion that my resume at that time never claimed that I knew Java; The only mention of Java was a library that I had used as a black box) 2. This is a fairly new one but most software engineers must have seen equivalents over the years :). Rate yourself on a scale of 1-10 on the following: -- Machine Learning -- Convex Optimization -- Linear Algebra You know what was really disappointing? The second question was asked to me first by the recruiter (whom I don't blame for asking me the question) and then again by an engineer (after we had just concluded a long discussion on my projects touching upon those topics).