Luckily i never had to go through these interviews to get some work. I'll be hiring programmers next year and only two things matter to me: their code - i want to see how clean they are, how they think, how they structure the logic and flow. And how capable they are for solving a problem. That's it. Nothing else truly matters. Programming is essentially a detective work of high level problem solving. I have couple of questions where i present a problem and ask for a solution - not code, just how they would solve it. And there is no bad answer, but i am looking for a particular way of thinking/solving things, so we're more in sync and that's about it.