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Oleg Sklyar

A set of questions to test how well a candidate memorises random, mostly irrelevant stuff.

If you are an interviewer, no matter at which level of your or candidate seniority, do not ask Spring questions even in a Java interview. Do not ask trivia questions on any programming language either. Both yield exactly zero signal about general cognitive ability of a candidate.

And if you are a candidate being asked a lot of this stuff: do you want to be a builder putting up brick walls (as this is what the company really expects when they expect you to know or remember most of this stuff) or do you want to be an engineer and of relevance beyond this immediate job opportunity?