I'm really struggling to understand how telling someone about the things you've done in the past is a tough ask. "Tell me about a time when a project didn't tur

I'm really struggling to understand how telling someone about the things you've done in the past is a tough ask. "Tell me about a time when a project didn't turn out as expected" or "Tell me about a time when you disagreed with your manager" are common variants of this question, and honestly if you don't have these experiences you just might not be experienced enough for a role. Telling stories about the things you've done is an essential part of human communication, not some weird "game" that hiring managers have come up with to mess with you. In a very practical sense, if you can't explain things that happened to you it's going to be really hard for you to communicate issue involving solving problems with software. What does make sense is plan old interview anxiety. Rather than make up stories walk though your resume and just refresh your memory of how projects went, what lessons did you learn from the projects, what was surprisingly easy, surprisingly hard etc.