This isn't specific to comp sci. While I can't cite a specific story this many years out, I definitely recall my classmates in Physics going for their nuclear p

This isn't specific to comp sci. While I can't cite a specific story this many years out, I definitely recall my classmates in Physics going for their nuclear power interviews (I had already decided that wasn't for me) coming back their bragging/complaining that they had to explain the proper application of Schrodinger's equation to an interviewer.