I went to an internal job interview about 5 years into working for the company. They were asking me all sorts of textbook questions about defining stuff like polymorphism and explaining some sort algorithms. I bombed. Many of these terms and algorithms had never been used during my 5 years, and I forgot many since they hadn't been used since college.

I wanted to ask the interviewer if they actually use these terms in meetings or used the algorithms, but I didn't. Since it was internal, I already knew the answers would be that they didn't, and I didn't want to appear confrontational.

I was internal, a high performer on my team at the time, and you're going to ask me this useless stuff?