<p>No entitlement mentality, believe me. I don’t recall EE’s interviewed to be asked questions from the footnotes of the user manual of their favorite scope (HP, not this Agilent stuff :)) while asking totally trivial questions is par for the course in CS interviews… </p>
<p>In Civil Engineering, stuff we learned 35 years ago holds true to this day and is par for the course; if I’m hiring a structural engineer I’m not going to ask her how to frame a particular problem in Matlab or what table to use in the DIN book (equivalent to our ASTM/ANSI usually) to look up how much rebar to put. Or in what screen of software package so and so you specify whether you use ribbed rebar or smooth rebar. CS grads, on the other hand, are routinely asked trivia questions that are all about the latest technology de jour, regardless of whether it can be learned in a week.</p>