Yeah except that character encoding question assumes I know how Python handles bytearrays. That trick answer of "it will break" threw me for a loop because I needed language-specific knowledge about the types that Python could handle for that input.

And then with timing attacks - I mean SQL Injection is a fair web security question to ask someone, but the timing is like, very fringe knowledge. Most devs let their framework handle all of those kinds of things. Not sure why I would need to know this unless I was specifically in the sec world.

The last 3 questions were actually general CS because they went through search trees and shortest paths algos, which are language-agnostic.