Yeah clearly. Most companies only want engineers to implement the companies ideas, but don’t actually care about high level ideas from those engineers.

Imagine you are interviewing senior levels of engineer, like Guido van Rossum: in an ideal interview, you don’t want to hear him regurgitate textbook problems taken from an exam book.

You want to hear about his vision of where he sees the field in 15 years.

But this is not what companies want.