Honestly, being able to answer this question is my biggest criterion for serious interviewing interviews. Knowing how basic data structures work, basic O (n) analysis and some light theory are really important for successfully writing large applications.
This is important in the interview, because it is important in the work. I worked with technicians in the past who were self-taught, not taking a course on data structures or not reading a book of data structures, and their code was sometimes bad as it should have appeared.
If you do not know that n2 will run slowly compared to n log n, you need to know more.
As for the later half of data structure courses, it is usually not applicable to most technical tasks, but if you ever want it, you want you to pay more attention.