I'd rather interviewers asked about database/relational theory.
I've never seen a project that went off the rails because the people on it failed to understand algorithms or the proper time to use a deque but almost every project I'm handed to work on has a data normalization issue.
Alas the Google cargo culting will probably continue...
Well... I'm smart enough to stay the hell away from work where I have to deal with databases (and lucky enough to not having to had to deal with them so far). So I guess I'm saying that I agree.
I've never seen a project that went off the rails because the people on it failed to understand algorithms or the proper time to use a deque but almost every project I'm handed to work on has a data normalization issue.
Alas the Google cargo culting will probably continue...