phone interviews

i arrived home last tuesday and my roommate (who is also a .NET developer and an ex-officemate) is on the phone for an interview.  the interviewer was from the US and her questions are very technical and trivial.  the funny thing is my roommate all have pages of cheat sheets around him, referencing each of them on every question.

questions range from SQL server to .NET, basically definitions for triggers, isolation levels, indexes, recordset vs dataset, etc.  when he was specifically asked about the different types of indexes, he specifically left out the check constraint so the interviewer wouldn't notice that he's been cheating, :p.  and this is already the second interview, first one's basically the same thing but from a filipino.

for me, i wouldn't join a company with those kind of interview questions.  what would be interesting though are scenario based questions which an experience developer would encounter.  just like the debugging problem presented by hanselminutes here.