Hi, Agree that interview should be less academic, but academic  knowledge does matter. it’s not really about how much candidate can answer , for that written&#x2F;technical test is enough, IMHO Personal interview meant to find out how candidate approaches to solution, And thats when its disappointing when candidate would say I know what “db indexing” does but do not know how. If one do not know how, it signifies candidate is not interested( or capable) enough to know problem and thus if selected chances of him&#x2F;her writing erroneous code would be more. .