Are these interviews turning into a "can you regurgitate some memorized information" formality?
As an interviewer: This is always a red flag to me, because being a successful software engineer is much more than memorizing common truisms. (I spend a lot of time cleaning up misinterpreted "truisms.")
As a candidate: If I'm expected to regurgitate truisms, it's a flag that trying to do things "right" will be opposed by people who don't understand how computers / information work; and a lot of friction will come from trying to make something work versus make something fit an inappropriate ideal.
As an interviewer: This is always a red flag to me, because being a successful software engineer is much more than memorizing common truisms. (I spend a lot of time cleaning up misinterpreted "truisms.")
As a candidate: If I'm expected to regurgitate truisms, it's a flag that trying to do things "right" will be opposed by people who don't understand how computers / information work; and a lot of friction will come from trying to make something work versus make something fit an inappropriate ideal.