Do developer job Interviews have unrealistic expectations

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I notice that most developer interviews ask a myriad of textbook definition questions about programming languages and database development.

I'm wondering how realistic you all think this is given the fact that programmers are put in a situation where they have to crammed answers for most things that in real life you never have to cram cause you can look things up while you work.

Even in university, classroom exams let people know the specific area that you have to study for, but in programmer interviews you are expected to memorize every minute detail of the whole programming language cause questions for textbook definitions can come from any angle.

I know for a fact that nobody knows everything and 99.9 percent of the developers involved in conducting these kinds of interviews cannot answer every/any question that could be thought up on the fly about a language, but would sit in these interviews and tell themselves that it makes sense to judge a person's skills off of questions that they the interviewers have had the chance to sit down and read/learn the answers before asking them to a candidate. They are making a mockery of the field and no other engineering field takes this approach to job interviewing.

asked 4 mins ago

SilverBackApe

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Do developer job Interviews have unrealistic expectations