To be honest, the majority of interviews I've had for software jobs were non-technical. Once I reached a certain level of experience, talking about past work se

To be honest, the majority of interviews I've had for software jobs were non-technical. Once I reached a certain level of experience, talking about past work seemed to be enough for people to validate that I knew what I was talking about. That's not to say that technical things were not discussed in the interview, but it was more of a conversation, rather than a quiz. That being said, most of these jobs were at engineering companies (e.g. device companies that employed several types of engineers, software only being a part). Not your Google, Yahoo, or Microsoft. The few times that I have been interviewed by pure software companies, that's when the quizzes happened. So maybe there's a cultural element to it.