I apply at a lot of places and have a lot of interviews since I prefer to do contract work nowadays. For a while, a lot of that included practice interviews for places I wasn&#x27;t really interested in, but wanted to get a better feel for the job market. Interest vs a lack of interest doesn&#x27;t seem to change the education question sets.<p>But that&#x27;s not really the point. The point is that surface level things trump all else. Companies in all flavors - big, small, startup, medium, etc - all do it.