Who said anything about trivia? Asking trivia is pointless and any company dumb and/or lazy enough to base their interviews on trivia deserves the bad hires.

While we're at it, who said anything about monads and bloom filters? The former aren't really data structures or algorithms, the latter would hardly qualify as "the most fundamental data structures".

Also, I don't remember saying anything about the irrelevance of writing readable code and flexible-yet-specific tests.

In short, you're certainly disagreeing, but apparently not with me.