At the peak of the meaningless hiring frenzy period in tech (when people were just shoveling bodies through interview funnels), I had to learn how to guess what

At the peak of the meaningless hiring frenzy period in tech (when people were just shoveling bodies through interview funnels), I had to learn how to guess what the interviewer knew and thought was the correct answer. There's no greater liability in these type of interviews than actually knowing what you're talking about. If the interviewer corrected me with a wrong answer I learned to quickly apologize and pretend I was humbled and in the wrong. Thankfully if you're a strong engineer there's more and more small companies out there that are solving real problems and understand technical issues. You'll probably find more success interviewing at one of these. Even most startups today have lost their lost for emulating big corps in interviews.