> Just old-fashioned comp-sci uselessness. Yet so many interview tests tend to have a focus on CS backgrounds. I just went through a few weeks of interviewing

> Just old-fashioned comp-sci uselessness. Yet so many interview tests tend to have a focus on CS backgrounds. I just went through a few weeks of interviewing and some of the questions asked were really there to see if you knew your CS stuff. For some companies the questions were at least relevant to the industry and tasks they were trying to accomplish, but some were so far out there it just didn't make sense. The company I finally decided to accept at had a sane interviewing process, one that had challenging enough questions to show that you know what you are talking about - and when there was one lesser known method I wanted to use, but couldn't remember the syntax, they allowed me to look it up real quick. In the end, I was able to teach the interviewer about this method, and it helped me complete the task in a far more efficient manner.