The author prepared with the info he had and was "lucky" that he got a question he knew and had situational awareness to sell it. It's all positive traits in m

The author prepared with the info he had and was "lucky" that he got a question he knew and had situational awareness to sell it. It's all positive traits in my book. The discussion about the ways to interview to smooth this out is great but I don't think he should self flagellate or consider that his entire career was predated on this. If you have the right attitude, prepare and work for it, you find any number of paths to get to the next level. It's unfortunate that interviews sometimes feel so badly fit to achieve the goal and we should actively challenge whatever practice we have an iterate to make things better for everyone.