To share my experience, the kinds of "make you cry" interviews which test a lot of CS knowledge seem relegated to the Bay Area companies which I interviewed with. All my interviews with companies in Texas (where I live) would interview more to ask about your experiences with a technology, challenges you'd faced when working with a similar stack, and maybe ask how you solved some tricky performance problem. They tended to focus more on the real world experiences than the academic knowledge. Once in a while someone would throw a framework- specific curveball your way to make sure you knew what your resume said you knew.

This isn't a knock on the companies in the Bay Area, because clearly what they are doing works for them, but it's just a drastically different style that feels foreign to me.

When those of you in the Bay Area interview every few years for new jobs, do you just brush off all your CS textbooks, study/review for a month, and then start the process?