I don't understand this attitude. There must be lots of great companies to work at where the interview process is a bit flawed and the questions a bit unrealistic. Why let that stop you? Why handicap yourself when you can just learn it?
because apparently parts of america are an insane sellers market where you can command 100k+ fresh out of school. If you don't want to deal with these questions there's ten more jobs down the street that won't ask you any hard questions.