You don’t truly know what you would do in a situation until you’ve been tested.
> You don’t truly know what you would do in a situation until you’ve been tested.
I had an interviewer ask a broad "What can you do with X" question, and my mind went blank.
Five minutes later, he asked about solving a problem and I said "Well I would use X to..."
Open-ended "give me an example" questions are not a situation folks encounter in their job. It's entirely an interview question.
It's entirely a shitty interview question.
https://managementconsulted.com/amazon-leadership-principles...
While they are grouped by the Amazon LPs, they are more or less standard soft skill behavioral questions. Almost all of these questions have been relevant during the latter part of my career as the dev lead (2 jobs ago), the de facto cloud/enterprise architect (my last job) and my current job (cloud consulting department).
These are also the standard type of skills you need in most senior dev positions where they are filtering on “scope” and “impact”.
My last three jobs since 2014 before my current one have all been based on my ability to navigate behavioral questions and just have conversations like adults to the hiring manager (department head, IT director, CTO) where we talked about their real world problems and how I would solve them.