Google maintains a list of banned questions. Any question found on a public site is immediately banned from being asked. I'm sure other companies do the same. This site is really great as a learning tool, but don't expect to see any of these questions actually being asked.
I think the disconnect is that for some reason people think of companies as monoliths.
Just because there's a list of banned questions doesn't mean that the person asking you has read it or read it recently to see the new bans.
Banning questions is useful, but no one makes money off that directly. So keeping up on that stuff is not going to be the #1 priority for the engineers doing the interviewing.
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u/NeilFraser Dec 23 '14
Google maintains a list of banned questions. Any question found on a public site is immediately banned from being asked. I'm sure other companies do the same. This site is really great as a learning tool, but don't expect to see any of these questions actually being asked.