Well, that's like saying you blew a Google interview question because you failed to recognize a black vine weevil, therefore keeping up with entomology is prett

Well, that's like saying you blew a Google interview question because you failed to recognize a black vine weevil, therefore keeping up with entomology is pretty important. One company having a buggy interview process that asks questions irrelevant to the job, at the very most means if you are applying for a job at that company you should spend a couple days cramming for the interview. It does not mean you should spend the precious hours of your life studying a field that's irrelevant to your job on an ongoing basis. To be clear, if you want to study set theory or entomology because you find them interesting for their own sake then far be it from me to criticize that decision. I'm just disagreeing with the argument that you should do so because of one company's buggy interview process.