> Basically I now prepare fake stories before hand. Seems pointless. Give me hypothetical scenarios any day of the week. I'm with you on this, as I find on-the

> Basically I now prepare fake stories before hand. Seems pointless. Give me hypothetical scenarios any day of the week. I'm with you on this, as I find on-the-spot recall pretty hard too, especially depending on my mental state. I've just started doing a career retrospective before every job hunt, with an eye towards extracting communicable takeaways that can be communicated in interviews. It's actually a very useful exercise, excluding the part where I have to find a way to articulate the takeaways. But I've found that, surprisingly, getting decent coverage of the stuff I learned from my job makes it a lot easier to answer arbitrary recall questions