Many of those questions about past situations are illuminating for interviewers about the kind of manager you are / how you think about enabling teams, though t

Many of those questions about past situations are illuminating for interviewers about the kind of manager you are / how you think about enabling teams, though they can certainly seem odd if you are not sure what they are trying to evaluate. (Often that is intentional, as it’s a lot easier to, say, pretend to have empathy if you know that’s exactly what they’re looking for.)