Exactly. I see it as a tacit admission that you are effectively a cog in a wheel if those are the kinds of questions they are asking.

I know some people get frustrated by those kinds of questions, but I'd just see it as a reverse weeding out process. If you still want to work at (insert company here), just build something valuable and have them acquire you. At that point they'll acqui-hire you and you'll leap frog all the people who got in because they had Knuth books memorized.