What I've realized is that interviews are like anything else in life. People will tell you to expect x, y, and z and your own experiences will look like a, b, a

What I've realized is that interviews are like anything else in life. People will tell you to expect x, y, and z and your own experiences will look like a, b, and c. Interviewing, like a lot of other processes, is something that can be "hacked".