Couldn't agree more. These type of questions/interviews are a total waste of time, and probably poison to most development teams. I've been on more than one i

Couldn't agree more. These type of questions/interviews are a total waste of time, and probably poison to most development teams. I've been on more than one interview where I know that I've hit it out of the park, and I swear that the lead dev torpedoed my prospects out of fear that somebody might know enough to call him out on his BS. Even in the best of scenarios, I think that this type of questioning has little value. Unless it is the most basic of questions to determine if the candidate actually knows the languages that they've listed on their resumes, what value is there in testing if someone knows something can be easily looked up and/or researched in a relatively short period of time if it was really important for the task at hand? Please don't take my comments as minimizing the high level of detailed technical knowledge necessary for some tasks... but for most I would take a humble hacker who can quickly inhale new knowledge over the goofballs who end up doing these interviews, hands down.