Oh dear, pistols at dawn...? Its like a kindergarten in here sometimes.
The interview process simply sorts the wheat from the chaff.....and in some cases the good wheat from the not so good wheat!
In the post 9/11 world Cathay is lucky enough to have that luxury. (The fact it wasnt always so, or that some guys just had a bad day is, sadly and perhaps unfairly, neither here nor there)
There is very little point in wrestling the pig over this:
a. the pig loves it
b. win or lose you still end up covered in sh1t.
And....IMHO....a little bit of theory goes a long way but no one expects you to be designing new super-critical wings on your G days (unless of course, you like that sort of thing)
Its horses for courses and to the best of my knowledge its still Cathays racetrack.